On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 03:30:49PM -0500, James Miller wrote: > Ok. I see I should have mentioned that I rebooted. It still didn't work. > Nor did manually modprobing it work (I didn't think it would if rebboting > after editing /etc/modules failed, but I thought I should try it anyway). > I also modprobed mousedev, which similarly didn't help. Only when I ran > across something telling me to look at the output from cat > /proc/bus/input/devices did I begin to make any progress. That output > told me the mouse was at /dev/input/mouse0, and when I entered that under > the Generic Mouse stanza of XF86Config-4, I got a working mouse cursor > under X. But gpm is not working (i.e., no cursor appears in console mode > when I move the mouse, as it should), and I'm not sure why. Neither do I > have a console beep - another mystery. Anyone have input on getting gpm > and the console beep working under the 2.6.4 kernel?
With 2.6 the beep depends on a module - called pcspkr I think. (Personally I like the silence :-) ) As for gpm - I don't use it myself, but I don't think 2.6 has changed the situation that you can't meaningfully have two things trying to read the same mouse. The standard advice is to get gpm working first - configuring it according to the settings you've used for X should work - which you do with X not running, then tell gpm to repeat type=raw (check punctuation :-) ) and point X's mouse config at /dev/gpmdata. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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