On Mon, 22 May 2000, Justin Megawarne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 06:22:23AM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: >> A fresh installation using the boot floppies in frozen directory >> (ftp.debian...), dselect + apt-get used to continue installation. >> Problems: >> 1. Mouse (/dev/psaux, ps2 with wheel) doesn't work after setting it up >> through xf86config; it had always worked before. Mouse works in console, >> detected by gpm with correct settings. Guessing: Since I had installed >> imwheel, I thought it could have messed up the settings, removed >> "imwheel", but still doesn't work. Don't know what to do. > >Yes, I had this too ... it seems you have to `gpm -k` or `killall -9 gpm` for >everything to work happily, which is a PITA, to say >the least ... the ps2 repeating is reported not to be supported, which I think >is a total lie =P > >If it works after killing gpm, you have a repeating problem. I'm not sure how >to fix that side of things. Anyone out there? =)
Don't know if I'm getting something wrong here, but all you need to do is have X read from gpm's fifo, i.e. In /etc/X11/XF86Config: Section "Pointer" Protocol "MouseSystems" Device "/dev/gpmdata" ... EndSection In /etc/gpm.conf: device=/dev/psaux type=ps2 responsiveness= append1="-R" # -R for repeat/echo to /dev/gpmdata If you don't start gpm from the stock /etc/init.d/gpm script, just make sure you add "-R" to the command line. -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
