[ltp] Mouse on 770 console?

Andrew Gaffney linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sat, 27 Mar 2004 09:56:23 -0600


Ajai Khattri wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> 
> 
>>I'm running Gentoo with gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.4 on my 770. I have gpm setup (edit 
>>/etc/conf.d/gpm) to use '/dev/psaux' and the 'PS/2' protocol.
> 
> 
> My gpm config looks like this:
> 
> MOUSE=ps2
> #MOUSE=imps2
> MOUSEDEV=/dev/psaux
> #MOUSEDEV=/dev/input/mice
> 
> # Extra settings
> 
> #RESPONSIVENESS=
> #REPEAT_TYPE=raw
> 
> # Please uncomment this line if you want gpm to understand charsets used
> # in URLs and names with ~ or : in them, etc. This is a good idea to turn 
> on!
> 
> APPEND="-l \"a-zA-Z0-9_.:~/\300-\326\330-\366\370-\377\""
> 
> # Various other options
> 
> #APPEND="-g 1 -A 60"
> #APPEND="-l \"a-zA-Z0-9_.:~/\300-\326\330-\366\370-\377\" -g 1 -A 60"
> 
> 
> The problem is that I have gpm in m default runlevel but it doesn't work. 
> But if I restart gpm it works just fine. Weird huh?

Do you get any error messages or anything in 'dmesg'? My config is the same except I don't 
have an APPEND uncommented.

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Andrew Gaffney
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