On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 10:53:31AM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: > Setup: Stock woody install from testing > Kernel 2.2.20 > > Comments: X is installed but not running for these tests > Mouse works in X but not in console > > > If I say: > > # /etc/init.d/gpm force-reload > Stopping mouse interface server: gpm. > Starting mouse interface server: gpm. > > at the command line then `ps waux|grep gpm ' > should show some thing with gpm in it ...right?
Yes, if all's well. But as I stated in an earlier posting, we still don't know for sure that your /etc/init.d/gpm is correct. Any reason you're not willing to share it's contents with us just to eliminate the off change that it *is* mangled? > Should lsmod also show a module running that is mouse realated? That depends. Is your ps/2 driver compiled in or compiled as a seperate module? Look through /boot/config-.... for the awnser. > Neither of these happen here. Is it likely that upgrading to a newer > kernel or reconfiguring the present one will help this situation? No, as you noted in previous postings, it works in X in a `X-only' setup, so no need to question whether the ps/2 port works under Linux. Or, it might be that X doesn't let go of /dev/psaux. To exclude that possibility: make sure X is killed start gpm If this still doesn't work, it's gpm's error, so concentrate on it and try to get it to run without that /etc/init.d layer as proposed in several earlier posts. > cat /etc/gpm.conf > > device=/dev/psaux > responsiveness= > repeat_type=ms3 Please don't use anything else here but "raw", it complicates matters unwieldly if you do. > type=ps2 > append="" > sample_rate= -- groetjes, carel
