[Techtalk] Spastic Mouse After Using Virtual Console

[Dom Incollingo]

----- Original Message -----
From: Terri Oda <terri at zone12.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 16:07:28 -0500
To: techtalk at linuxchix.org
Subject: Re: [Techtalk] Spastic Mouse After Using Virtual Console

> On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 01:28:50AM +0800, Dom Incollingo wrote:
> > - Verified that gpm is not running by executing 'ps axw | grep gpm' in the
> >   shell. This command did not return any output.
> > 
> > - Tried starting gpm. No improvement. (Didn't think this would help, but
> >   thought it was worth a try.)
> 
> If you do want to try running it through gpm, do set gpm to just repeat
> without any alteration and let X use the mouse through gpm.  I had some
> similar spastic mouse issues when I tried to have gpm and X both use the
> mouse in other ways. 
> 
> To do this, make sure your gpm.conf has a line that says:
> repeat_type=raw
> 
> And then in X, the mouse is 
>    Option      "Device"    "/dev/gpmdata"
> 
> (I'm using X 4, so alter this appropriately for X 3)
> 
> I doubt this'll help either, since it seems likely that you've got some
> other issue, but heck, if you're at your wits end, sometimes anything's
> worth a shot!
> 
>  Terri
> _______________________________________________

Hi Terri,

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll give it a try using gpm to see if it makes a difference. However, I have a couple questions about gpm.  First, my system does not have a /dev/gpmdata. It has /dev/psaux and /dev/mouse (a link) as shown below. Can I just create /dev/gpmdata with the same major and minor numbers as /dev/psaux? Or should I create it as a soft link to /dev/psaux?

  dom at linux:~> ls -l /dev/mouse /dev/psaux /dev/gpmdata
  ls: /dev/gpmdata: No such file or directory
  lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           10 2003-01-25 20:26 /dev/mouse -> /dev/psaux
  crw-rw----    1 root     root      10,   1 2003-01-25 20:27 /dev/psaux 

Second, my system does not have the /etc/gpm.conf file (even though gpm is installed). Do I just create this file manually, or is there a program that I should run to create it?

Thanks very much for your help.

Dom
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