On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 08:30:41PM +0300, Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote: > On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 04:03:19PM +0200, Michel D?nzer wanted to say the > following: > > Hadess wrote: > > > > > > I'm using 2.2.15 (yes, I know about the vulnerability ;), and I can > > > > successfully load the usb-ohci, mouse and usbcore modules. But neither > > > > gpm nor XFree86 work with /dev/usbmouse, protocol IMPS/2 (also tried > > > > mman > > > > in gpm, no dice). > > > > > > Here are a few things you can try: > > > - use hid module instead of mouse module > > > > Will try that. > > > > > > > - try "cat /dev/usbmouse" and move the mouse, see if any output > > > > I redirected that to a file which was about 2 megs after a few seconds... > > 'file' said it was ASCII text, and the first few pages in 'more' were empty. > > > > Does that imply anything? > > You should probably do > > cat < /dev/usbmouse > > it should print nice garbage stream to the terminal when you move the mouse, > and it should stop if you dont move it. Example here (dont we all just love > screenshots 8) > > ��� > > > 8��8��8��8��8��8��8��8��8��8��8��(�(�8��8������8��8��8��8��8��8��8��8��8��8��8���8������������8��8���8��8��8��8��8���8��(�(�(��(�(�8���(�8��(�8��(�8��8��8��8��8��(�(�(�(�(�(�(�(�(�(�( > ���������(�(� > > It will mess up your terminal if you do it for a long time, typing "reset" > helps if your characters get garbled.
or echo ^V ^O friendly, Sven LUTHER
