> As the gpm maintainer I will try and stay polite and explain some > things. > > <snip> > On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 07:46:51PM +0200, Massimo Dal Zotto wrote: > > I had the same problems when using the new defaults (-R ms3 and > > Intellimouse on /dev/gpmdata). > > Can you please give specifics?
Yes. I have an old serial mousesystems on ttyS0. I configured gpm (1.17.8-18) with: device=/dev/ttyS0 responsiveness=20 repeat_type=ms3 type=msc append="" the X sever (xserver-svga 3.3.6-10) with: Section "Pointer" Protocol "intellimouse" Device "/dev/gpmdata" EndSection and set the mouse acceleration in .xsession with: xset m 1 1 With these settings the mouse works but it has a very annoying "deceleration" effect on the X cursor: when moving the mouse slowly the cursor has a normal speed but when moving it faster the cursor moves very slowly. Under console the mouse behaves normally. Using a mouse with this behavior makes you sick so I had to configure gpm and X with the default msc repeater type. > > Another nasty thing is that if you use the task-selection interface gpm > > is not installed by default and there is no way to add it manually to the > > package list. > > Eww, I will have to get that corrected. gpm should be installed by default or even better be included in the base system. > <snip> > > Repeating in /ANY/ protocol except ms3/IntelliMouse is NOT an option, it > will not work with X4, the ONLY protocol which will work for gpm > repeating to X4 is ms3/IntelliMouse. This seems not correct. I have never tried X4 but other users reported that msc on gpmdata works fine also with X4. Anyway if msc and other protocols didn't work with gpmdata I would consider this a severe bug of X4 which should be fixed as soon as possible. > Raw is just screaming loudly for it to break, msc no longer works and > does not support the features of newer mice, there is exactly one > option, ms3/IntelliMouse. > > Further having X and gpm try to coexist without repeating is also a > non-option, on some systems it breaks badly. > > Thus, we have three possible choices. > > 1: gpm installed without X, no problems. > > 2: X installed without gpm, no mouse under console, but otherwise no > problems. > > 3: gpm and X installed with gpm repeating to X in the ms3/IntelliMouse > protocol. > > There are no other options, these are the only configurations which will > work on all systems. As I explained before this doesn't work on my system, so I suggest: 4: gpm and X installed with gpm repeating to X in the msc/MouseSystems protocol. -- Massimo Dal Zotto +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Massimo Dal Zotto email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Via Marconi, 141 phone: ++39-0461534251 | | 38057 Pergine Valsugana (TN) www: http://www.cs.unitn.it/~dz/ | | Italy pgp: see my www home page | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]