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I am getting to be an old slack hand, so I'm well aware of how to set up gpm for both console and X -- or so I thought.
Here's my quandry:
- on boot, gpm is running fine, mouse button3 works great for pasting highlighted text.
- startx, gpm still cool, mouse works good, wheel is in effect, everything's groovy.
- logout of X: no more gpm.
is there some script that gets run when i shutdown X that I don't know about?
distro is slack-current (a/o 11/14/02 -- 9.0 beta)
using windowmaker for window/desktop mgr
Thanks in advance.
Last edited by bustamelon; 11-20-2002 at 08:33 PM.
The reason could be a wrong module is being used, I had a similar problem once with a PS/2 mouse, just changed the module and now everything goes fine ...
...that the rc.gpm file has a comment suggesting /dev/gpmdata as an alternative to /dev/mouse, which i tried -- and it solved the gpm-kill problem, but i lost wheel functionality.
vladkrack:
module?
i'm not sure what you mean exactly, but my mouse driver is built into the kernel, not modular.
mouse is an MS intellimouse PS/2 (optical, not that that matters), 2 buttons and a wheel. have used the same mouse with the same XF86Config and rc.gpm for years, calling imps2 to /dev/mouse. Have read all about compat probs between gpm and X, but have never had the problem until i upgraded slack to current.
gpm is called by rc.gpm like so:
gpm -m /dev/mouse -t imps2
Sorry, I expressed myself wrong , I was tanking about the protocol really ...
The mouse I had the problem used the same protocol, imps2, was configured in X just like yours, but in gpm was configured using just ps2, when I changed to imps2 it solved the problem. In my distro, the configuration file is /etc/sysconfig/mouse, is like:
MOUSETYPE="imps2"
XMOUSETYPE="IMPS/2"
FULLNAME="Microsoft IntelliMouse (PS/2)"
XEMU3=yes
DEVICE=/dev/mouse
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