In my experience, it depends on the video card. I had problems with the mouse in X with a Nvidit TNT Riva card until I used gpmdata. With gpmdata, I found that often after using X and switching back to a text console that gpm would not paste correctly.
When I switched to a new motherboard with onboard video (SiS 630ET) the mouse acted strangely in X with gpmdata used, so I tried using /dev/psaux. Now the mouse works fine and I no longer have any problems with gpm either. I needed to revert to xserver-svga (3.3.6) with this chip (the 4.1 driver has problems) which may (or may not) be a factor. Bob On Sun, Sep 15, 2002 at 04:16:35PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Eric Sharkey wrote: > > > > Hi! Hope I am posting to the right group. Using Debian testing. Both > > > the gpm and the X mice jitter and are unusable, although the mouse is > > > standard PS2 and works fine with another distrib. Suggestions welcome. > > > > You probably set both X and gpm to read the raw device. Let gpm > > read /dev/psaux and tell X to read /dev/gpmdata and pass gpm the -R > > flag. > > I do _not_ _agree_ it helps. I had the same problem like Eric. Then I > went to the documentation and it is outlined there: "You should be using > gpmdata..." and so on. Ok it helps a lot (of course you've got to set it > correctly) but even then I experierence another strange behaviour: at > first glance everything seems perfectly ok but at some moment (let say > after you've been playing with some application) under > X-window my mouse will suddenly jump at random location... I don't know > what's wrong. I tried several combinations (mouse protocol and so on) > and the beheviour is the same - maybe it's just my mouse. Well anyway I > strongly discourage using X-window and linux virtual terminals at the > same time not only because that the co-existance of gpm and x-window > mouse isn't smooth, not to say not well developed. In general and as far > as my few years experience tells me the switching between the > x-server(s) and virual terminals can cause and it frequenly does > instability of your linux box. I know same of you will claim it never > did happen to you. But I experience it with a few friends of mine and me > myself: at least with these hardware combinations: voodoo > 3:3000/BX/P-III, riva vanta/BX/celeron-433, > geforce2mx/abitKT-7/athlon1333. I don't know it is representative. I > know many will ask: did you use riva binary driver or did you use > opensource nv. Well both of them happen to have the same problem apart > that the open source driver is unusable to me because it lacks hardware > accelerated OpenGL support and some video extention when decoding divx > movies. > > So enought > greetings to all of you > > Tomek > > > > Eric > >
