Thanks for the detalied reply. I saw your another reply. I answered none
for repeat. Now mouse works both in console and X
Raju Mathur wrote:
>
> As far as I can make out, most of the GPM troubles in Debian are due
> to the fact that Debian GPM automatically repeats for X since two
> programs cannot use the mouse simultaneously. The way it works is
> like this:
>
> - gpm receives mouse input, on (say) /dev/ps2aux (PS/2 mouse)
>
> - gpm uses that input to go whatever it is supposed to: copy, paste,
> menu's, etc.
>
> - gpm also writes data into /dev/gpmdata (a named pipe). Any app
> which reads /dev/gpmdata is fooled into thinking that it's receiving
> mouse events, whereas it's actually only reading gpm's output.
>
> Debian automatically sets up gpm so that it reads in the raw mouse
> protocol (MS, PS/2, Logitech, etc) and writes /dev/gpmdata in MS mouse
> protocol. /dev/gpmdata is linked to /dev/mouse too. Hence the X in
> Debian is configured by default with /dev/mouse as the mouse and MS as
> the mouse protocol.
>
> You can change any of these by re-running mouseconfig (IIRC) which
> allows you to tell gpm what protocol to repeat the mouse data in. For
> instance, I prefer it to repeat in native PS/2 format since that gives
> me 3-button mouse emulation. Once GPM has been set up with the
> repeat protocol, setup X to use /dev/mouse as the mouse device and the
> appropriate (repeated) mouse protocol.
>
> man gpm and have a look at the -R option for more information.
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