Re: Sid: upgrading to xorg and mouse no longer works
On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 12:23:40 +0200
Johann Spies <jspies@sun.ac.za> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 11:47:33AM +0200, Jesper L. Nielsen wrote:
> >
> > Not really a pointer, but I had the same problem on Debian, so I hat
> > to steal my config file from a SuSE installation I had running.
>
> Thanks Jesper. That made me read again and realised that it was the
> mouse protocol that works in XFree but not in xorg. I removed
> xserver-xorg, deleted /etc/X11/xorg.conf and reinstalled it. This
> time the configuration looked different:
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Configured Mouse"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "CorePointer"
> Option "Device" "gpmdata"
> Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
> Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> EndSection
>
> I just had to change "gpmdata" to "/dev/gpmdata" and now it works.
>
actually the change that made the difference was changing the protocol from
IntelliMouse to ImPS/2 if it was the device then you wouldn't get any input,
not just a misbehaving mouse.
> Regards
> Johann
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