On Mar 19, 8:38, Karsten Bolding wrote: > On a Toshiba Satellite 110CS I would like to be able to use the > pointing deviec situated on the keyboard instead of an external > mouse attached to the serial port, which I want that to use for a > modem. The info I'm after is the device and protocol to enter in > XF86Setup. I guess I have to recompile the kernel with the proper > support?
Karsten, The AccuPoint "eraser tip pointer thingy" (which I expected to hate, but learned to love) on my Toshiba 730 is just a regular PS/2 mouse. You can use Protocol "PS/2" Device "/dev/psaux" in your "Pointer" Section. I used to use gpm a lot back when I had a machine on which X was slow, but now I rarely leave X. Still, I want gpm available on those rare occasions that I use the console, and the 2.0 kernels only allow one user of /dev/psaux at a time, so I run gpm with gpm -m /dev/psaux -t ps2 -R (`-R' setting up the repeater). I then put Protocol "MouseSystems" Device "/dev/gpmdata" in my XF86Config, and the mouse works great both in X and on the console. (I understand that gpm's `-M' switch will even allow you to use two pointers simultaneously.) You will, of course, want to add Emulate3Buttons Emulate3Timeout 50 to your XF86Config. I find that I use mouse-2 in X much more than mouse-3, so I run xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 3 2 to swap the two. The one exception is that I use mouse-3 (WindowList) against the fvwm2 background much more than I do mouse-2, so I added Mouse 2 R A WindowList Mouse 3 R A Menu Window-Ops to my ~/.fvwm2/post.hook to swap those two. Email me if you need more details. Kirk Hilliard
