Chris Johnson Bidler <cbidler at innominatus.com> wrote: > > Shawn Fertch wrote: > > > I'm putting Slack back on my desktop, and I have a MS Intellimouse > >optical. When I set the mouse to /dev/mouse, the pointer in x goes crazy. [snip] > I've experienced problems with XFree86 4, wherein if I have gpm running > in console land, and then I start X up, the X server and gpm 'fight' > over the pointer, causing serious craziness (pointer jumps to an > edge/corner and starts throwing up context menus randomly). Killing gpm > fixes that right up. You can also set up gpm to work in a repeater mode, where data suitable for X11 will come out of /dev/gpmdata. However, it changes the format of the data in the process, so it isn't recognized as a PS/2 mouse anymore. I think it comes up as a Microsoft mouse instead. Also, I don't know if gpm will send the scrollwheel stuff through or not (anyone know?) -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ There will be no last bus / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ tonight. \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020214/7abb65e8/attachment.pgp