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Re: mouse problems in X
It works. Thanks. not as it did before (it does freeze for few seconds when
the server is coming up), but it works.
Does anybody know the reson for the problem ?
After all it worked perfectly with slackware 3.3. i had no problems at all.
it's a little bit annoying.
thank you, anyway, for those who responeded.
It works.
Eyal.
At 22:19 27/06/98 +0300, you wrote:
>On Sat, 27 Jun 1998, Eyal Retter wrote:
>
>:Hi people,
>:
>:Tried the new slackware 3.5 (2.0.34) and run into problems.
>:
>:the mouse works great in gpm (standart logitech on com1), but when I start
>:X server no mouse at all.
>:tried both Xfree86 and AcceleratedX. No mouse.
>:the mouse is set to "mouseman" ("Microsoft" didn't help) on /dev/mouse
>:which points to /dev/ttyS0. tried ttyS0 directly as well as cua0 - didn't
>:help. standart XF86config file. If I try to play with the settings in
>:XF86Setup, everything locks and I have to reboot.
>:
>:the mouse works well using gpm utils.
>:
>:any ideas ?
>:
>:
>:Eyal.
>change your mouse protocol in /etc/XF86Config (or /etc/X11/XF86Config)
>to "MouseSystems", and device to "/dev/gpmdata"
>Then, check if you have /dev/gpmdata on your system. If you don't, create
>it using "mkfifo /dev/gpmdata"
>Then, edit /etc/rc.d/rc.local (or /etc/rc<what is appropriate>/S<??>gpm)
>so it will start gpm with "-R" switch.
>It will help.
>:
>:
>
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