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dreamer3
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 Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2003 12:30 am Post subject: Microsoft Optical Wheel Mouse X/gpm not getting along |
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I just purchased a Microsoft Optical Wheel Mouse (the optical one with 2 buttons and a roller ball/button). I love it (used it before at a job under Windows) but sometimes after leaving X back to the console I will get:
| Quote: | === ERROR ===: [/var/tmp/portage/gpm-1.20.0-r5/work/gpm-1.20.0/src/mice.c(1771)]:
imps2: Auto-detected unknown mouse type 250, assuming standard PS/2
=== ERROR ===: [/var/tmp/portage/gpm-1.20.0-r5/work/gpm-1.20.0/src/mice.c(1771)]:
imps2: Auto-detected unknown mouse type 250, assuming standard PS/2 |
gpm appears to have crashed and I must zap it, manually delete the /var/run/gpm.pid file, and restart it (usually twice) to get my mouse working at the console again...
Have a feeling this has something to do with the interaction/transfer from gpm to X and back... but I wouldn't know where to go about starting to look for an answer...
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pilla
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| Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2003 3:30 am Post subject: |
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How is your mouse section in the XF86Config ?
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| Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2003 4:19 am Post subject: |
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Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "imPS/2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Resolution" "1800"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
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pilla
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| Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2003 4:49 am Post subject: |
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I can imagine a conflict here. Doesn't gmp makes a pseudo-device at /dev, something like /dev/gmp? If both gmp and xfree try to access the device at the same time, it may crash.
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dreamer3
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| Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2003 4:56 am Post subject: |
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Never had this sort of problem with my serial mouse... could CTRL-ALT-F1 to a console use it just fine, CTRL-ALT-F7 back to X (and after a variable delay) use the mouse just fine...
Reason I've avoided PS/2 for so long, they are pickier  |
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| Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2003 2:46 pm Post subject: |
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Have you seen this thread?
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| Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2003 5:13 am Post subject: |
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I have now... and read all the linked messages at the bottom as well. Now I understand the idea of /dev/gpmdata being a pass through device that you can tell X to use... sweet. I haven't tried it yet, as I don't seem to have NEARLY as many problems as others have described, but next time I'm down to console I will see about setting it up.
Thanks for the pointer. Guess I didn't search very well for this one.  |
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