On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 01:06:54AM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote:
| On Thu, 2001-12-20 at 00:25, Didier Malenfant wrote:
| > I'm switching to 2.4 to try and sort out some other problems (with
| > sound).
|
| Have you tried Alsa (it's great). What kind of problems are you having?
|
| > Under 2.2.18 my Intellimouse explorer would work with GPM, from what I
| > gather the usbmouse driver would translate everything into a standard
| > PS/2 format because gpm.conf was still using /dev/psaux and everything
| > worked (even though the mouse was in the USB port).
|
| That kinda surprises me. My usb mouse is /dev/input/mice (i also made a
| symlink to /dev/mouse) I believe you will find info on creating
| /dev/input/mice in Documentation/usb/hid.txt (in the kernel source).
My USB mouse is /dev/input/mouse0. All (connected) USB mice can be
accessed via /dev/input/mice (so if you have 2 plugged in, they both
work transparently to the client code, this is nice for GPM since it
doesn't support mulitple mice like X does).
Of course, this is using devfs as well. I don't know the major/minor
numbers to create a node for using a static /dev.
/dev/psaux should only work for a PS/2 mouse. (btw, I never used usb
in 2.2 kernels)
I use the 'imps2' protocol (Logitech MouseMan Wheel) and it works
great.
| > Under 2.4 this doesn't work. I tried to point gpm to /dev/usbmouse but
| > no chance. Loaded modules are input, usbmouse and mousedev.
| >
| > What settings should I be using in gpm.conf and what modules need to be
| > loaded?
You will need 'hid' too (human input device). Do you see a message on
the console when you plug the mouse in? You should. It will tell you
that a USB device was found and give some info about it. You should
see a similar message when you unplug it.
-D
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