Re: Reconfigure Mouse?
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 07:41:33PM +0000, Pigeon wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 07:49:06AM -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote:
> > That "auto" protocol still works...
>
> It doesn't always; it's broken for some mice in woody's X. It was
> fixed some time before 4.3 though.
>
> The reason for the breakage was not sending a reset command to the
> mouse. If it doesn't work for you, iterate through the protocols by
> hand and reset the mouse yourself:
>
> echo -ne '\377' > /dev/psaux
>
> before trying a new protocol.
Heh. I just finished putting the same mouse on my other machine, and
the settings didn't work there (both Sid, different innards). The
problem stemmed from gpm being set up with a "raw" repeat rate.
I'll file the above reset away for a rainy day, though.
It so often seems like a crap shoot with some things...
Kenward
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