On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, Jared Johnson wrote: > > > screen and briefly displaying popup menus eventhough I'm not pressing any > > buttons. I can use the mouse just fine in terminal mode to highlight > > text and paste the text using the middle button, so I think my hardware > > is > > ok. Any clues? > > A very easy way to fix this would be to use the mouse in X through GPM (the > program that is used to support the mouse in terminal mode). You can do > this by running gpmconfig and telling it to use the -R flag (or optionally > by editing /etc/gpm.conf to do the same thing); then, when you set up X, > set it up to use the device /dev/gpmdata and the protocol MouseSystems. >
Thanks for the help. I edited /etc/X11/XF86Config so that the Pointer Device is "/dev/gpmdata" and the Protocol "Microsoft" (how horrible...) and the mouse works now. Jeremiah
