serial mouse under knoppix ?

[Peter L. Peres]

On Sat, 3 Apr 2004, Ian Goldberg wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 12:07:20PM +0200, Peter L. Peres wrote:
> >
> > I have a problem with a serial mouse under knoppix. The mouse is on ttyS1.
> > It requires expert startup and configuring (including XF86Config) but then
> > it does not work. While in X11 the config is the right one and shows the
> > mouse as serial on ttyS1. The pointer is frozen in the screen center.
> > Setting the same settings in gpm in a console works perfectly (mouse
> > works, all is well). It's a plain ms protocol serial mouse with 3 buttons.
> > Any ideas ?
>
> Do you have gpm running (in another console) *while* X is running?  If
> so, that's likely your problem.  Kill gpm and see if that makes X start
> working.  [Only one process can be reading the data coming back from a
> serial port.  If it's gpm, it's not X.]
>
> If that's indeed your problem, look up the "repeater" functionality of
> gpm, and set X to use /dev/gpmdata instead of /dev/ttyS1.  Then both gpm
> and X should work at the same time.

I started and stopped gpm separately while X11 was running. I know about
the repeater/single mouse problem. I will try to tell X11 to use the
repeater device but in my experience this is not always a good idea.

Peter
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