Re: Xserver didn't start

[Mike Chandler <mailmanmike@sbcglobal.net>]

On Saturday 19 June 2004 10:55 am, Kent West wrote:

> Except that he manually commented out the BusID line in XF86Config-4, so
> now debconf will no longer modify that file until he does the stuff at
> the top of the file.
>
> At this point, it might just be easier to manually modify the
> /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file.
>
> If you're running gpm (does the mouse move in the text console? if so,
> then yes, you're running gpm), configure it to repeat the data as "ms3",
> and then configure XF86Config-4 to read from /dev/gpmdata and use the
> appropriate protocol (which I believe should be "Intellimouse" instead
> of the "ImPS/2" protocol as listed below (I'm doing non-standard things)).
>
> > Section "InputDevice"
> >         Identifier      "Configured Mouse"
> >         Driver          "mouse"
> >         Option          "CorePointer"
> >         Option          "Device"                "/dev/gpmdata"
> >         Option          "Protocol"              "ImPS/2"
> >         Option          "Emulate3Buttons"       "true"
> >         Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
> > EndSection
>
> --
> Kent

Hi Kent, as long as you're in here, can I ask a question?
Does gpm not work with a usb wheel mouse?
I install gpm, then do dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 (change 
to /dev/gpmdata) restart X and the mouse is frozen.
Thanks...