[Gpm] logitec having short freezes & future of gpm

Jan D. gpm@lists.prosa.it
Mon, 09 Apr 2001 20:17:08 +0200


Tomas Pospisek wrote:
> 
> Hello List, Alessandro and Ian,
> 
> * I'm having here a Logitec PS2 wheelmouse, it's 2nd hand so I don't know
>   it's type. It works with:
> 
>         device=/dev/psaux
>         responsiveness=
>         repeat_type=raw
>         type=imps2
> 
>   but the mouse feels very rough. It's having kind of very short freezes.
> 
>   If I run the mouse under X4.0.2 under IMPS2 (direct access to
>   /dev/psaux, gpm is off) the mouse runs fine. Is there anything I can do
>   except for having a deep dive into gpm and X code (which I won't be able
>   to do unless I find a way to clone myself :-(

Have you tried the Xfree4 patch in the contrib directory? 

	Jan D.