On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 01:49:25PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote:
| On Tuesday 24 February 2004 11:58, Shot wrote:
| > Richard Lyons:
| > > You have mouse active in console? I haven't seen that
| > > since I switched from RedHat. How do you achieve that?
| >
| > Through apt-get install gpm. There were some problems with it not
| > behaving nicely with subsequently started X, but there were also
| > some solutions to this, I believe.
|
| Thanks. Turns out I have gpm installed. It just never worked on any of the
| machines (one woody 2 sid). Wonder why... something for a lazy day -- not
| urgent enough for now.
Or spend 10 minutes now and be done with it. Really. Setting up gpm
is very simple, and getting gpm and X to play together is equally as
simple. The steps go like this (copied from earlier posts of mine to
this list) :
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200312/msg06012.html
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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.
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It works every time.
-D
PS. Additional information :
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200312/msg05826.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/debian-user-200201/msg01960.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/debian-user-200112/msg03414.html
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