Re: [MLUG] USB mouse in Xfree86

[yoda <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Some of my googling turned up info about telling X to take input from
/dev/gpmdata, I think. Is that what you're talking about? I have libgpm
installed, but not gpm itself.

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On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Jason McIntosh wrote:

> Try two things:
> A)  Change the settings from /dev/usbmouse to /dev/input/mice
> B)  In X, restart GPM when you plugin the mouse.  I've found for some
> strange reason this fixes things a lot.
>
> Cheers!
> Jason
>
> On 1/3/03 4:39 PM, "yoda" <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
>
> > So, I have this USB mouse and keyboard I was playing with on my laptop. The
> > keyboard I just plugged in (after properly compiling the kernel), and it
> > recognized and loaded appropriate modules. Same with the mouse, except I had
> > to
> > add some lines in XF86Config to get X to look at /dev/usbmouse for input.
> >
> > It works fine as long as X is started while the mouse is plugged in. The
> > keyboard I can hot-plug to my heart's content. It didn't even need me to
> > restart
> > X. However, if I plug in the mouse while X is running, I get nothing. Is there
> > a
> > way to make (or jury-rig) X to allow me to plug in the mouse when I feel like
> > it, without restarting X?
> >
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