Re: Mouse in command line

[Rex Chan <szin@optusnet.com.au>]

-  Kent West <westk@acu.edu> [2004-04-28 07:23:18 -0500]:

> You'll need to configure it to repeat the mouse data (either as "raw" or 
> as "ms3" I believe; IIRC, the author of gpm or some other person in the 
> know says "ms3" should be the correct choice, although until I read that 
> post (search archives over the past year) I had always used "raw" and it 
> worked for me), and you'll need to reconfigure the mouse in X to read 
> mouse input from /dev/gpmdata instead of wherever it's currently reading 
> (/dev/input/mice? /dev/psaux?). Although in the past year or so, the 
> "/dev/input/mice" may have become "magic" enough to handle reading from 
> gpm and might now be the canonical mouse location for X.

Hmm... I just tried this out with my usb mouse.
I got gpm working pretty easily, using gpmconfig...
Set repeating type to ms3 and protocol to imps2

I put set the device under X as /dev/gpmdata but that didn't work out
So i set it back to /dev/input/mice and it was all good.

However, it seemed like from the posts that X should have worked
perfectly with the /dev/gpmdata line.
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