[CLUE-Tech] Mousing Around: gpm trouble, swap?

[Adam Bultman]

You may try switching your XF86Config file's mouse line to read "IMPS/2"
instead of "PS/2". Mine does that if I put in "PS/2" and not "IMPS/2".

See if that takes care of it.

-- 
Adam Bultman
adam at glaven.org
[ http://www.glaven.org ]


On Thu, 2 May 2002, David Anselmi wrote:

> "Jed S. Baer" wrote:
>
> > Problem is, now, when I exit X, or switch to a different (non X) console,
> > gpm is wildly confused. It's as if having run X, the mouse signals are
> > madly scrambled for the console. The pointer doesn't move, and moving the
> > mouse results in erratic button-click events. Doing a gpm restart doesn't
> > clear it up. So, after googling for a while without finding anything, does
> > anyone have any idea why this would be happening?
>
> Well, I have heard of this.  One distro I used (LFS) didn't have any problem
> but I didn't go out of my way to make it work right.
>
> IIRC the 'fix' is to stop gpm, start X, stop X, start gpm.  Something about
> the drivers not playing nice with each other.
>
> Dave
>
>
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