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3.2 Configuring X
Dman, of debian-user, made a nice little summary
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that I’m going to copy
wholesale:
If you want mouse in console and X:
• gpm reads from the mouse device itself. With a PS/2 mouse this is
/dev/psaux. With a USB mouse (and devfs, I haven’t used USB without
devfs) it is /dev/input/mice. gpm needs to be told the correct protocol
to use. For many modern mice (including mine) the protocol is ’imps2’.
• gpm needs to repeat with protocol ’raw’. It repeats through a named pipe,
named /etc/gpmdata.
• X needs to read from /etc/gpmdata and use the same protocol that gpm
is using. In the case of my mice that protocol is ”IMPS/2”.
If you want mouse in X only:
• X reads from the mouse device itself. With a PS/2 mouse this is /dev/psaux.
With a USB mouse (and devfs, I haven’t used USB without devfs) it is
/dev/input/mice. X needs to be told the correct protocol to use. For
many modern mice (including mine) the protocol is ’IMPS/2’.
Thanks, Dman!
I also needed to edit my /etc/X11/XF86-Config-4 manually to include the
other mouse, as per a suggestion on debian-laptop
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.
I added:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Logitech Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
and the “Logitech” line in the following section:
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen"
InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
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http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200306/msg02922.html
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http://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop/2003/debian-laptop-200306/msg00150.html
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