On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, David B. Harris wrote: > Okay, first of all, please use paragraphs. They exist for a reason :) > Since it's too much trouble for me to break things up to present a nice > clear, response, you'll have to deal with my babbling. >
Yeah, sorry about that...my babbling doesn't translate well to paragraphs. Ah well... > First of all, if your mouse isn't initialized as an IntelliMouse, it > pretends it's a regular PS/2 mouse. > Right. What do you mean by 'initialized'? You mean initialized as in what gpm.conf and XF86Config-4 have it set as? Or something else? > Second, gpm gets to your mouse before X, so you have to be positive that > your mouse type is set to "imps2" in /etc/gpm.conf . > Yep, got that. > Third, it sounds like both GPM and X are trying to use /dev/psaux. Check > to see what /dev/mouse is linked to. Since you're using GPM and X, > specify explicitly in XF86Config[-4] that the mouse device is > /dev/gpmdata, not /dev/mouse . > Well, since X wants to use /dev/mouse , i made it a sym link to /dev/gpmdata (since that is what gpm is set to repeat to) I guess i probably shoulda stated that it was just a link in my previous email. > Now, try rebooting, after making sure all those config options are set > properly. If it still doesn't work, set X to use /dev/psaux, type > ImPS/2, 'rm /etc/rc2.d/*gpm' to stop 'gpm' from being started on boot, > and then re-boot. Hopefully that will work. If it doesn't, you have > problems that arn't caused by X or gpm. Okay, i had tried this before, however it was without the reboot, so i tried it again. As it turned out, this fixed it. Pointing X straight to /dev/psaux, and not starting gpm at all did it. Which leads me to believe that gpm doesn't work with the new kernel 2.4.1 i set up, since the old configuration worked just fine with 2.2.18...very strange. Any ideas on why this might be? thanks, dave