On Fri, 25 May 2001, SI Reasoning wrote:
> Unfortunately that problem involved the mouse being
> locked up as well as the keyboard. However that does
> sound interesting. How would I get gpm to set up these
> keystrokes and associations? Maybe it should be a
> standard part of the mandrake distribution to have
> such an out!
It was probably X that locked up, rather than the mouse hardware. If it
had been routed via gpm to X, then gpm should still have been able to pick
up the "emergency sequence" even if X had stopped responding to mouse
movements.
To get gpm to act as a repeater, change /etc/sysconfig/mouse to contain
MOUSETYPE="xxx -R msc"
where xxx is your real mousetype (see gpm manpage for a listing), then
tell X that it has
Protocol "MouseSystems"
Device "/dev/gpmdata"
The gpm manpage tells you how to set up the "emergency sequences".
HTH,
Michael
