[2984] in RedHat Linux List
Re: middle mouse button weirdness
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Otto Hammersmith)
Wed Nov 6 12:04:59 1996
From: Otto Hammersmith <ohammers@cu-online.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 10:50:19 -0600 (CST)
In-Reply-To: <32803CFD.167E@stud.unit.no> from "Kenneth R|rvik" at Nov 6, 96 08:23:41 am
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Kenneth R|rvik wrote:
>
> Daniel M. Drucker wrote:
> >
> > I'll do my best to describe this problem.
> >
> > * Red Hat 4.0, all update RPMs applied
> > * Metro-X 3.1.2 X server
> > * three button generic serial mouse
> > * gpm -R (and the middle button works fine in text console)
> > * Metro-X configured to read mousesystems data from /dev/gpmdata
> >
>
> Try killing gpm prior to starting X. I believe gpm interferes with X's
> handling of mouse events.
If he's using gpm -R, that would be a Bad Thing (tm). He wouldn't
have a mouse at all.
gpm -R, tells it to read it's data from (optionally from multiple) a
device, and convert that into Mouse Systems type data and ouput that
into the pipe /dev/gpmdata. Then X is configured to use a Mouse
Systems mouse on /dev/gpmdata.
No gpm, no mouse period.
--
-Otto
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