Paul Gear wrote:
gpm is the console mouse driver (for using your mouse outside of X). I _think_ kernel 2.6 may have moved the mouse input device to /dev/input/mice, which is smart enough to share the device between multiple mice/mice-driven apps. But before that, if you had gpm and X both installed, the two drivers would fight over the incoming mouse data ("mine mine, mine"), so you had to specifically set up gpm to be the reader of /dev/psaux (or whatever device your mouse was on), then to repeat it to a special device named /dev/gpmdata, and then configure X to read from that device rather than the actual device. In this way, both the console mouse driver and the X mouse driver could play nice together.Kent West wrote:...I have exactly the same problem. The left-handed configuration works with Red Hat 9, SuSE 9.1, and Morphix 0.4.1, but not Debian sarge. Any ideas gratefully accepted. ...Still, the first thing that came into my mind is that if you are using gpm (the non-X mouse driver), you may be configuring the X driver for left-handedness but neglecting to do so for gpm.No, this happens immediately within the GNOME session. I'm used to GDM not doing the right thing.Not meaning to be offensive, but you do realize I didn't mention gdm? Just want to make sure you understood I was talking about gpm.Sorry, too late at night. I'm a morning person. :-) So what you're saying is that X is now dependent upon the gPm configuration somehow? Now that is strange. Why is this so?
If you are running gpm ("ps ax | grep gpm"), and you've reconfigured your mouse in X but not gpm, that could be the culprit. Probably not, but like I said, it was "the first thing that came into my mind".
-- Kent