On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 07:06:13PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: | Dman, help me out, I am confused :-( | | On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 07:03:00PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
| > Here's the problem. When you have no mouse plugged in the device file | > doesn't exist. Thus X can't open the device file, thus it ignores | > that "bad" part of the configuration. The solution is for the device | > file to exist even when there is no mouse to read data from. | > | > My current configuration on the laptop is : | > 1) gpm runs, it reads directly from /dev/misc/psaux (the | > touchpad) and /dev/input/mice (any and all USB mice) | | Yes, I now do this too. /etc/gpm.conf has append set with | append="-M -m /dev/input/mice" I suppose that's the easy way to do it :-). I patched the init script so the variables device2, type2, responsiveness2, and append2 are recognized. The net result is the same. | > 2) gpm provides a raw repeater as /dev/gpmdata | | -M force repeater and default repeater is ms3. So set /etc/gpm.conf | with | | repeat_type=raw Yes. Set that for the second mouse too. | > 3) X reads from the gpm repeater and directly from | > /dev/input/mice | ??? | | Is this right?? or typo. I would say It's right. | I do not understand why you try to let USB mouse read by gpm and X at | the same time? Any special reason exists? I don't know why. I set it up a long time ago and don't remember why X reads both. It's probably because at the time I didn't know how to get gpm to read 2 mice, so I set it to read the touchpad (PS/2) and had the USB working in X only. Later I made gpm read from both mice but didn't touch the X config (and it didn't break so I had no need to, I didn't notice until I looked while writing the previous post). | Even if X can not find /dev/input/mice during boot, X get signal from | USB mouse through gpm anyway. Yeah. I should try changing that ... maybe the mouse will be half as sensitive since X wouldn't be getting a double signal? The USB mouse is quite a bit more sensitive than the Microsoft PS/2 mouse at the office. (I leave that one at the office since it isn't nearly as nice as the Logitech, and I can't get an IMPS/2 mouse to work with the wheel on the PS/2 port without breaking the PS/2 touchpad) | > I can hot plug a USB mouse in the system at any time. The | > /dev/input/mice file exists even though I don't currently have the USB | > mouse plugged in. | | ??? Jack's problem was that the file /dev/input/mice didn't exist, thus X couldn't open it during startup. If he plugged the mouse in before starting X the file would then exist and the mouse would work. I have the file even without the mouse plugged in, hence I don't have the problem. The solution was found, mentioned in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. I have the input and mousedev modules loaded at boot time. If you add those to /etc/modules then you don't need the 'hotplug' package to hot plug a USB mouse. | > On my desktop at home I have gpm set up identically, but X only reads | > from gpm's repeater. It works as well without restarting X or gpm, | | Yes this looks more normal to me. Indeed. :-). | > probably because the device file exists even though the USB mouse in | > in the laptop case (and a ps2 mouse is plugged into the desktop). | | I am confused. You mean your desktop PC only have ps2 mouse and USB is | not used on desktop. I have a USB mouse and a PS/2 mouse (both nice Logitech MouseMan Wheels). Normally the USB mouse is in my desktop, but sometimes I take it with me to use on the laptop. I plugged the PS/2 mouse into the desktop so it would still have a mouse when I took the USB one. So, at the time of writing the above (and now) the desktop has only a PS/2 mouse. But it usually has both and I just use the USB one (the PS/2 I got used and has a bad spring on the roller, so the USB one actually has better feel). If I plug the USB mouse into the desktop right now it would just work. -D -- Through love and faithfulness sin is atoned for; through the fear of the Lord a man avoids evil. Proverbs 16:6 http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/
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