[PLUG] Rescan for PS2 Mouse?

Dick Steffens dick at dicksteffens.com
Fri Aug 16 22:58:34 UTC 2013


On 08/16/2013 03:31 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Aug 2013, Dick Steffens wrote:
>
>> Is there a command line tool to rescan for a PS2 mouse?
> Dick,
>
>     gpm is the tool you want. On Slackware it's '/etc/rc.d/rc.gpm restart'.
> Translate that to the distribution you use.

That wasn't installed. But I found a help page that described installing 
it with apt-get. I did that, and ran it, but it didn't make any 
difference. Rather than spend a lot of time with it, I just rebooted and 
the PS2 mouse works as expected.

Thanks anyway.

-- 
Regards,

Dick Steffens




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