[KLUG Members] Help! mouse problems!

[Peter Buxton]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 07:09:06PM +0100, Adam_Bultman@gmx.net was only 
   escaped alone to tell thee:

> Um, it's a PS/2 mouse, and /dev/mouse points to /dev/psaux.  I'm not sure
> what repeating mode is, but I'll check it out when I have the time.  How can
> you run X without gpm  for mouse stuff?  Mine doesn't seem to pick it up.  I've
> tried serial mice, too, and now with both mice, it says oops() invoked,
> device or resource busy.  Might be an IRQ or something. Hmm...

X has it's own mouse driver, e.g., my Logitech Optical Trackman:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Configured Mouse"
        Driver          "mouse"
        Option          "CorePointer"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/psaux"
        Option          "Protocol"              "imps/2"
        Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
EndSection

"imps/2" is the ps/2 Intellimouse protocol, but I guess Logitech emulates it
well enough (and the X docs don't mention other protocols). If gpm repeating
is not on, gpm and X transfer control of the mouse when switching from
console to X.

repeat_type="" in gpm.conf determines how gpm relays mouse events to another
mouse-using application, i.e., X Windows. For example, ms3 is serial
Intellimouse, imps2 is the same on a PS/2 port.  Here is a sample XF86Config
using gpm (again, I advise against it):

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Generic Mouse"
        Driver          "mouse"
#       Option          "CorePointer"
        Option          "SendCoreEvents"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/gpmdata"
        Option          "Protocol"              "IntelliMouse"
EndSection

/dev/gpmdata is gpm's virtual device. X reads mouse events from there.

The IntelliMouse driver corresponds to the "repeat_type=ms3" option in
gpm.conf, which is the default repeat type in Debian. 

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