[gpm] GPM and USB Optical Mouses

[Jamenson Ferreira Espindula de Almeida Melo]

Em sex, 11 de jan de 2019 às 19:35, Dmitry Torokhov
<dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> escreveu:
>
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 12:20 PM Jamenson Ferreira Espindula de
> Almeida Melo <jafesp@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Em qui, 10 de jan de 2019 às 10:00, Nico Schottelius
> > <nico-gpm@schottelius.org> escreveu:
> > >
> > >
> > > Hey,
> > >
> > > can you try imps2 intead of ps2?
> > >
> > > I think mice (for about 10-15y) rarely use ps2 nowadays.
>
> Indeed. And even more amazing fact, USB mice have never used PS/2
> protocol. Nor do they use imps2.
>
> > >
> > > There should also be an emulated mouse at /dev/input/mice and/or
> > > /dev/input/mouseX respectively. As far as I recall, they are also
> > > emulating imps2 by default.
>
> It is actually disabled by default now. You need to explicitly enable
> mousedev module in kernel to get PS/2 emulation. Everyone has moved to
> using evdev interface (with exception of GPM but nobody cares about it
> anymore).
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Dmitry

Could explicity enabling mousedev module in kernel to get PS/2
emulation work? Do gpm work properly with the Links Browser in graphic
mode?

Jamenson Ferreira Espindula de Almeida Melo
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