Re: lost mouse functionality in 2.6.x kernel upgrade
On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 07:57:43PM +0100, Pigeon wrote:
>
> As for gpm - I don't use it myself, but I don't think 2.6 has changed
> the situation that you can't meaningfully have two things trying to
> read the same mouse. The standard advice is to get gpm working first -
> configuring it according to the settings you've used for X should work
> - which you do with X not running, then tell gpm to repeat type=raw
> (check punctuation :-) ) and point X's mouse config at /dev/gpmdata.
In fact, this is one thing that 2.6 does fix. I have both gpm and X pointed
at /dev/input/mice, and both applications respond to both a usb and ps/2
mouse at the same time without interfering with each other. (I don't
normally engage in two-fisted mousing, I just never unplugged the ps/2 mouse
when I upgraded to the usb one.)
As far as the OP goes, I suspect that gpm is probably not properly
configured. According to /usr/src/linux/Documentation/input/input.txt:
Mousedev will generate either PS/2, ImPS/2 (Microsoft IntelliMouse) or
ExplorerPS/2 (IntelliMouse Explorer) protocols, depending on what the
program reading the data wishes.
Here's my /etc/gpm.conf (trimmed of comments):
device=/dev/input/mice
responsiveness=
repeat_type=msc
type=imps2
append="-3"
sample_rate=
HTH
dt
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