Since I did not get any reply to my mail below
Given the specificity of your first question (two specific mice, each identified by brand but not by model, and problems associated with one distro but not another), I'm not surprised that nobody here had sufficiently specific knowledge to be of help.
I helped myself with putting the following 2 lines in /etc/profile:
gpm -k gpm -t ps/2 -m /dev/mouse
Now the Kesington mouse works correctly on the console and in X, however the Benq mouse which BTW is a wheel mouse still goes crazy in X.
"goes crazy" is not a problem description. I'm guessing you mean that the pointer moves erratically on the screen rather than smoothly. (This reading is what underpins my second suggestion below.)
Is there a better way of getting the mice to work? Now I have first to open
root to make the mouse work and when opening user I get the error message that
I have no permission.
I can make a couple of suggestions, though they are still not specific to the details of your problem.
First, don't run gpm from /etc/profile. This approach tries to restart it each time a new user logs in. Only root can run gpm (as you know), and you don't even want root rerunning gpm all the time. If you need gpm running, do it from an init script.
Second, kill gpm before you startx. Conflicts between the gpm and X mouse drivers are old news. Unless one or the other has been tidied up recently, they will conflict sometimes, and there is no good way to predict when they will and will not play nice together.
don't know if you can get more specific help than that here. Although I've used Kensington trackballs, I've never even heard of Benq mice. At the least, to get specific help, you're going to need to describe the specifics a bit better ... in each instance, whether gpm is running (and if it is, with what options), what X version and server is involved, and what the actual symptoms are. Even then, it's uncertain if anyone here will know what you need.
---------- Hi,
I recently bought a new mouse since the old one is graying. Both ps2 mice behave properly under RH7.3 on the console and in X.
In Slackware 8.0 each behaves differently. One, a Benq, functions correctly on
the console, however, goes crazy in X, which then I have to abort with
ctrl-alt-backspace. The other mouse, a Kensington, is the reverse. It does
not work on the console, yet perfectly in X.
When I have started X with the Kensington mouse in SW8.0 and then change to the Benq mouse that one will then work in X.
Is there any explanation and could it be corrected and how?
Thanks & regards --
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