Thanks for all the help everyone. After trying everyone's suggestions to
get the mouse to work in console and in X, I opted to remove gpm and just
run the mouse in X.
Patrick
> On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 09:50:39PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Section "Pointer"
> > Protocol "ps/2"
> > Device "/dev/mouse/"
> > Emulate 3 buttons
> > End Section
>
> The trailing slash on the Device line above is definitely wrong...
> change to:
> Device "/dev/mouse"
>
> > My machine is set up to load into X on start-up. Is there anyway in
> > AfterStep to exit X windows without use of the mouse so I can try
running
> > X again with gpm stopped?
>
> If a xdm like program is starting up X (which is the normal method on
> Debian), then you need to switch to the console and then stop the xdm
like
> program you use... /etc/init.d/xdm stop
> (or gdm or kdm or whatever, you use)
>
> If you manually started up X, via startx, xinit, X11, X, or any other
> "start one time" type commands... you can kill the current running X
server
> by hitting C-A-Backspace.
>
> If you have X starting out of /etc/inittab (which many other
distributions
> do), you have to edit /etc/inittab and comment out the startup line
> then "kill -HUP 1" to get init to reload it's config file, or you have to
> change to a run level that doesn't use X, via any number of methods like
> ("init 2" or "telinit 2", but that is assuming run level 2 is a runlevel
> without init...)
>
> ...now I'm replying to your original post.
> >Debian 2.2 on my inherited Toshia 430 CDT.
> [...]
> >This evening I loaded X and was surprised to find that the pointing
> >stick didn't work. The cursor starts in the middle of the screen and
> >the second I touch the pointing stick, the cursor jumps to the bottom
> >of the screen, and will only move right to left.
>
> The system is not configured to talk to the type of mouse you have...
> this is a minor problem which is common until the mouse it actually
> tested.
>
> I suspect that your laptop mouse pretends to be a PS/2 mouse and that
> the laptop hardware relays any PS/2 data from the external mouse port
> unmolested. If it doesn't you'll just continue to get very erratic
> mouse movements...
>
> There are three places to check (/etc/gpm.conf, /etc/X11/XF86Config,
> /dev/mouse)... if you never use the mouse on the console then only one
> place needs to be configured (/etc/X11/XF86Config) but then you also need
> to make sure that gpm is not installed.
>
> On a typical debian system gpm talks to the actual mouse, manages
cutting
> and pasting on the text console, and relays any mouse events found there
to
> a pipe that all other processes that want mouse data can read it.
>
> I'll cover the "typical" case first...
> ########
> Gpm needs to know what type of mouse is connected (to know what
> protocol it talks) and what protocol to send out the pipe it creates
> (/dev/gpmdata). Gpm supports converting between many mouse protocols
> so you can configure everything to read a common protocol and when
> you change the mouse type you only need to change one file.
> In the example below gpm is told to talk to a ps2 mouse and repeat
> all the information as MouseSystems mouse type, this information is
> available in /dev/gpmdata.
>
> Then you configure the X server to talk to the mouse... it needs to
know
> which protocol the mouse talks and where to read the mouse data. In the
> example below (read MouseSystems and from /dev/mouse).
>
> The last thing to checkout is that /dev/mouse points to the gpm output
> file... run "ls -l /dev/mouse" and you should see the following
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Aug 13 2000 /dev/mouse -
> /dev/gpmdata
> If you don't see the line above run "ln -sf /dev/gpmdata /dev/mouse" to
> setup the link...
>
> /etc/gpm.conf
> =====
> device=/dev/psaux
> responsiveness=
> type=ps2
> repeat_type=msc
> =====
>
> /etc/X11/XF86Config
> =====
> Section "Pointer"
> Protocol "MouseSystems"
> Device "/dev/mouse"
> EndSection
> =====
> ########
>
> Now if you want X talking directly to the mouse... you need to make
> sure gpm is removed "apt-get remove gpm", make sure that the /dev/mouse
> points at your correct mouse device (which could be many things but is
> most likely /dev/psaux), and configure the X server to talk to the mouse
> using the correct protocol... and the section below is most likely what
> you want.
>
> /etc/X11/XF86Config
> =====
> Section "Pointer"
> Protocol "PS/2"
> Device "/dev/mouse"
> EndSection
> =====
>
