[PLUG] Mouse problems w/ XFree on Debian Laptop

Benjamin Prew bprew at logiccloud.com
Tue Sep 17 04:57:37 UTC 2002


On Mon, 2002-09-16 at 14:55, Derek Loree wrote:
> > That appeared to be the problem, doing a gpm -k before starting X worked.
> > Although, I wasn't able to read from /dev/gpmdata even when gpm was running.  I
> > switched back to /dev/psaux and just kill gpm before starting X.
> 
> This is probably due to the repeat protocol that you chose for the gpm
> configuration.  Try setting it to "raw", that usually works with well
> behaved mice.  BTW, the "proper" (debian) way to stop the gpm server is
> to do a "/etc/init.d/gpm stop", and a "/etc/init.d/gpm start" to get it
> going again (in case something else needs to be done as well).

Cool, changing the repeat to raw fixed it.  Hehe, I wondered about the
"proper" (debian) way :).

Thanks


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