[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with gpm, allready asked for help, but no response

[Troy Dack]

Miguel S. Filipe wrote:

>>On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Miguel S. Filipe wrote:
>>
>>>I'm sending this to both ML, because I allready asked for help on IRC
>>>and gentoo-user, but nobody could solve the problem.
>>>
>>>Problem:
>>>
>>>    While booting up gpm gives me some errors and sets some wrong
>>>protocol, conclusion: mouse get unusable!
>>>This is particulary boring because X listens to a gpm mouse repeater.
>>>
>>>If I logon and do: /etc/init.d/gpm restart
>>>mouse gets configuredly correctly, and now I can go to X and login.
>>>
>>>So, why is gpm at boot up being wrongly configured if the
>>>/etc/conf.d/gpm seems to be OK, since we can configure the mouse
>>>correctly with "/etc/init.d/gpm restart"
>>>
>>>Can anyone help me out?
>>> Is this a bug?
>>> Is this gpm error/fault, boot alignment/sequence error/fault, kernel
>>>setup error/fault, gentoo error/fault?
>>>
>>>here are the settings in /etc/conf.d/gpm and the error outputed by gpm
>>>at boot time:
>>>

<snip>

I had similar issues and solved it with these small changes ...

>>>>--- /etc/conf.d/gpm ---
>>># Config file for /etc/init.d/gpm
>>>
>>># The type of mouse you have and the device it is connected to
>>>
>>>MOUSE=imps2

Change to:
MOUSE="imps2"  # note the quotes


>>>MOUSEDEV=/dev/mouse

Change to:

MOUSEDEV="/dev/mouse"  # again, note the quotes

>>>
>>>
>>># Extra settings
>>>
>>>REPEAT_TYPE=imps2

I've got this set to:

REPEAT_TYPE=raw

>>>#RESPONSIVENESS=
>>>#APPEND="-g 1 -A 60"
>>>--cut--

HTH,
        Troy

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