> The ps2 port on PC's (or actually the treatment under Linux) doesn't
> allow two programs to read from that port at the same time. So if
> you have gpm running to use the mouse on the console *and* you want
> X to use that same mouse on such a ps/2 port: troubles, troubles.
> Not always, there are those who are lucky and experience none of the
> alludged malfunctionings that are reported, but those are few.
> Fortunately there is a way out of this mess: let gpm have the ps/2
> port all for him self, but let him forward all data he read from that
> port to a socket (/dev/gpmdata) and next have X read from that socket
> instead of reading from the ps/2 port.
I have several computers at home and at work with ps/2 mouse and
never, never have had any problem at all with both gpm and X reading
directly from the /dev/psaux port. The only time when it didn't work,
was when someone put protocol translation and mouse repeating by
default in the gpm.conf file, and that puzzled me quite a bit before I
realized which was the cause of the problem.
But maybe I was just locky with the hardware combinations I use.
Pf
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