[gpm] GPM usage question

[Pasquale Federico Zema]

On Sat, 19 Mar 2005, Alessandro Rubini wrote:

> > /dev/mouse was a symlink to /dev/psaux before gpm was installed and is 
> > now a symlink to /dev/gpmdata as a result of the gpm installation.
> 
> This is not good. Try to run it with -m /dev/psaux, unless you are
> using the input engine. If so /dev/input/mice is your device name, but
> I don't remember what the protocol name is.

imps2 should work in this case.


> > As an aside, when X is configured to use a PS/2 mouse at /dev/psaux, I 
> > do have mouse response in X (this is with gpm not running).

I usually run gpm with the option '-R msc' and then configure X to read 
data from /dev/gpmdata, with protocol MouseSystems:

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Mouse1"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option "Protocol"    "MouseSystems"
    Option "Device"      "/dev/gpmdata"
EndSection

Please, let me know if this works!

 Regards
 Federico

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