Dear Friends,
I'm very sorry for the html messages posted few days ago...
Anyway I correctly configure gpm for runlevel 3 and 5.
Here the solution:
NOTES: SuSE 8.0; Kernel Linux 1.4.18; gpm 1.19.6; Serial Mouse Microsoft 2
Buttons 1 Wheel
My approch to the problem is:
1) Make gpm working in Text Mode (runlevel 3 == init 3)
2) Make gpm working with X (runlevel 5 == init 5)
1) I created the FIFO file /dev/gpmdata whith the command:
'mknod /dev/gpmdata p'
Gpm is installed in /usr/sbin and running with arguments "-R -t
$GPM_PROTOCOL -m $MOUSE -d 2 -a 5 -B 132 -p"
Here is my config file /etc/sysconfig/mouse:
# Starts /etc/sysconfig/mouse
# Which device is the mouse ? (" ln /dev/mouse /dev/ttyS2 ")
MOUSE="/dev/mouse"
# /dev/mouse is a link pointing to the serial device /dev/ttys2
MOUSETYPE="Microsoft"
# the gpm protocol for the mouse device from the variable MOUSE
# the default value is defined by YAST
GPM_PROTOCOL="ms3"
# if the variable GPM_PARAM is empty then gpm will start with option:
# "-t $GPM_PROTOCOL -m $MOUSE"
# otherwise you can fill its own parameters for gpm
GPM_PARAM="-R -t $GPM_PROTOCOL -m $MOUSE -d 2 -a 5 -B 132 -p"
# The full name of the attached mouse.
FULLNAME="Microsoft"
# The YaST-internal identifier of the attached mouse.
YAST_MOUSE="none"
# The number of buttons of the attached mouse.
BUTTONS="2"
# The number of wheels of the attached mouse.
WHEELS="1"
XEMU3="no"
XMOUSETYPE="mousesystems"
#EOF
'/etc/init.d/gpm restart'
2) Here is part of my file /etc/X11/XF86Config the file to configure for
gpm working whith X.
# Srarts /etc/X11/XF86Config
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AllowMouseOpenFail"
EndSection
# Comment out Mouse[1]'s whole input device section. X and gpm trying
# to use the same mouse device will have problems.
# Section "InputDevice"
# Driver "mouse"
# Identifier "Mouse[1]"
# Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
# Option "Protocol" "AUTO"
# Option "Name" "AutoDetected"
# Option "Emulate3Buttons" "on"
# Option "Vendor" "AutoDetected"
# Option "Buttons" "5"
# Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
# EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Driver "mouse"
Identifier "Mouse[2]"
Option "Device" "/dev/gpmdata"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "off"
Option "Protocol" "MouseSystems"
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout[all]"
InputDevice "Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard"
# InputDevice "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Mouse[2]" "CorePointer"
Screen "Screen[0]"
EndSection
# EOF
'/etc/init.d/gpm restart'
'startx'
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