Mouse problems

[Bill Mueller]

Hello all,

Ok, finally figured out... so for all you waiting for the answer, here it
is.

All 6 of my PS/2 compatible mice really use the IMPS2 protocal.  gpm by
itself works fine in most console applications using the ps/2 protocal.  But
for MOL to use it successfully you must configure gpm to take the IMPS2
protocal and output PS/2.

gpm 1.20.0 allows you to run this command to do just that:

          bash> gpm -m /dev/psaux -t imps2 -Rps2

This repeats the data to /dev/gpmdata.  The only other change that was
needed was to change molrc.input in /etc/mol so that the device =
/dev/gpmdata and the protocal = ps2.

Hope someone finds this usefull.

-Bill

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stoffel" <schaefer@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de>
To: <mol-general@lists.maconlinux.org>
Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 1:20 PM
Subject: Re: Mouse problems


> Salut,
> On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 02:10:40PM -0600, marciot wrote:
> > I don't know if the following applies to you, nor do I know if MOL
depends on
> > "gdm", but the symptoms are something I've seen before outside of MOL.
But
> > here is something to try:
> >
> > See if the mouse work ok under the console in other programs. For
example, try
> > this:
> >
> >    1) Switch to a virtual console (Cntl-Alt-F5)
> >    2) Run "emacs"
> >    3) See how the mouse behaves
> >    4) Quit emacs (Cntl-X Cntl-C)
> >    5) Return to X (Cntl-Alt-F7)
> >
> > The purpose of this experiment is to see whether the mouse operates
correctly
> > under "emacs" when in console mode. If it does not, then the particular
> > problem you are having is a common one (in fact, it happens on the Linux
box I
> > am sitting right now) that has nothing to do with MOL. It has to do with
the
> > console mouse driver (gdm) and an incompatibility with PS/2 mice.
> You certainly mean gpm.
> >
> > Do a "man gdm". If I recall correctly, it has work around for this
problem.
> > Once you get it fixed and the above experiment works, then I imagine it
would
> > work under MOL too.
> First try to start mol from the console without gpm running.
> >
> > Marcio Luis Teixeira
> jops,
> Stoffel.
> >
> >
> >
> > >===== Original Message From mol-general@lists.maconlinux.org =====
> > >Hello all,
> > >
> > >Was wondering if anyone had any problems getting the mouse to work
correctly
> > >when booting MOL from a prompt, rather than in X-windows.  The mouse
works
> > >fine in X-windows, but will only move up and right when booted from a
> > >prompt.
> > >
> > >I'm trying to remove the overhead from X-windows.
> > >
> > >I am using a PS/2 mouse on YDL 2.2, MOL ver 0.9.64-2, MACOS 9.2, kernel
> > >2.4.19-rc4.
> > >
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