Re: USB mouse with kernel 2.4.26
--- Nori Heikkinen <nori@sccs.swarthmore.edu> wrote:
> > Option "Device" "/dev/gpmdata"
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> This was the problem. A friend suggested
> trying changing it to /dev/input/mice, and that worked like a charm.
> I'm not sure why, though -- does this mean that gpm somehow just
> wasn't turned on?
No, what youhave done there is make gpm act as a repeater. Basically it is
GPM which controls your mouse in this instance, but sends the same control
commands via /dev/gpmdata which X11 interprets as normal mouse movements.
This option only works if you have gpm installed and running, of course.
-- Thomas Adam
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