On Wednesday 25 February 2004 15:18, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
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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!
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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
I'm obviously being unusually thick here. man gpm tells me nothing about
configuration. I read all the references you gave, but still have no idea
how to configure gpm. I have an empty file /etc/gpm.conf and a file
called /etc/gpm-root.conf which I cannot understand, and which has no mention
of protocol or device. So I am still unclear how to configure it. Mouse
works fine in X -- it is only in console that it doesn't.
I do see your point about the change I'll need to make in X if I have gpm
configured - thanks for that pointer.
And we are in the wrong thread for this...