What Kent said (quoted below).
I can't emphasize it enough:
1) stop X, get gpm working
1.a) pick the right device (usually /dev/psaux)
1.b) pick the right protocol (usually ps2 or imps2)
1.c) repeat_type=raw
1.d) start gpm, move mouse
1.e) if this doesn't work, go back to 1.a!
2) get X working
2.a) pick the right device (/dev/gpmdata!!)
2.b) pick the right protocol
(the same one gpm is using; duh :-))
2.c) start X, move mouse
2.d) if this doesn't work, which step did you not follow
correctly? :-)
Note the critical elements -- device and protocol. If you don't use
the right device and the right protocol, it isn't going to work,
right. Period. Get those two right and it will work.
-D
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 08:09:44AM -0600, Kent West wrote:
| Gruessle wrote:
|
| >I do have a file called |gpmdata in /dev/ but the size is 0 and
| >it shows up black in mc plus it has this "|" in front
| >And last date changed shows just a few min. ago.
| >Looks like that file got corrupted somehow when I did the change to
| >XFConfig-4.
| >How do I get that file fixed?
| >My X id not working at all anymore until I can fix this.
| >And why did that happen?
| >
| >
| What you're describing sounds normal, as you can see here:
|
| >enjae[westk]:/home/westk> ls -l /dev/gpmdata
| >prw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 18 08:02 /dev/gpmdata
|
| The "p" means this is a "named pipe", as opposed to a normal file or a
| directory, etc. mc represents this as the pipe bar "|". It gets changed
| whenever gpm writes to it. All normal.
|
| In the console (outside of X; get there via Ctrl-Alt-F1 if you're in X),
| when you move the mouse, do you see a white block cursor follow your
| movements? If so, does it track properly? If so, then gpm is properly
| reading the mouse. Configure it to "write" properly the raw data, and
| then you're ready to focus on X. For the moment, forget about X; get gpm
| working first.
|
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