On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 01:51:15PM -0400, Eric Cheney wrote: > > > > Hello. I'm trying to introduce a debian box to my office....I am not > > a sysadmin, so I stumble a little bit with these things. Anyway, I want to > > make > > a good impression of deb. I've installed woody. I'm getting weird things > > with the mouse. Can somebody help? Here's what's up. > > > > I loaded up X server and it connects and all that. If I start X with > > gpm, I get a mouse, but it is very erratic and unacceptable. So, if > > I remove gpm, and then restart X, the mouse works fine under X. Ok, > > if I then reboot, there's no connection to the mouse without gpm; so after > > reboot (after removing gpm), the mouse is dead under X. > > > > In the XF86Config-4 setup file I have the mouse on /dev/psaux. I checked, > > and there is a link from /dev/psaux -> gpmdata. I'm using a ps/2 mouse. > > > That is correct.
Hmmm... try X looking at /dev/gpmdata, gpm looking at /dev/psaux and repeating `raw' --- /etc/gpm.conf --- device=/dev/psaux responsiveness= repeat_type=raw type=ps2 append="-l \"a-zA-Z0-9_.:~/\300-\326\330-\366\370-\377\"" ----- > Console mouse (gpm) and window managers don't always get on well, I recall > this is often a particular problem with gnome. Works for me with twm, mwm, blackbox, icewm, xfce, and KDE... I don't use Gnome though. - Bruce
