GMP dies when logging out of X ?

bustamelon · 11-19-2002, 01:42 PM

Greetings Slackers:

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.

vladkrack · 11-19-2002, 01:59 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 ...

bustamelon · 11-19-2002, 02:31 PM

...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

in XF86Config:
Driver "Mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

vladkrack · 11-19-2002, 03:05 PM

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

bustamelon · 11-20-2002, 08:36 PM

gotcha. well i got imps2 in there.... o well -- guess i can live with actually typing out the gpm command every so often.... or live without PASTE

Bluesuperman · 11-21-2002, 12:29 AM

Could it be that your are using a beta version of Slack... I am using 8.1 and everything is fine.

bustamelon · 11-21-2002, 09:09 AM

it certainly could be the beta causing troubles.... i'm finding that almost NOTHING will build correctly from source......