Re: gpm problem

[Linas Zvirblis <0x0007@gmail.com>]

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:

> This is the problem:
>
> "At times", after a copying and pasting operation, the mouse cursor 
> disappears and the last item copied appears at the prompt all the time. 
> In midnight commander, with the gpm option enabled, all lines are 
> selected all the time when the mouse is moved.
>
> Starting stopping gpm do nothing. I have to reboot for the mouse cursor 
> to appear again.

Are you running X and gpm at the same time? If they both are configured 
to use the same device, conflicts may occur and gpm may stop responding.

If this is the case, you can configure gpm to repeat mouse events and 
set /dev/gpmdata as mouse device in X configuration file. Here are mine:

gpm.conf:

 device=/dev/input/mice
 responsiveness=
 repeat_type=raw
 type=imps2
 append=''
 sample_rate=

xorg.conf:

 Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Configured Mouse"
        Driver          "mouse"
        Option          "CorePointer"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/gpmdata"
        Option          "Protocol"              "ImPS/2"
        Option          "Emulate3Buttons"       "false"
        Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
 EndSection