I've replaced a wheel-dead "Microsoft InteliMouse PS/2 Compatible" with
a new "Microsoft Mouse Optical USB and PS/2 Compatible." Didn't want to
fiddle with USB and plugged it into the PS/2 socket with the adapter
included with the thing. I have gpm starting with

/usr/sbin/gpm -m /dev/mouse -t imps2 -3

and, on reboot, got a message from gpm about incompatible protocol. If I
restart gpm with "rc.gpm restart" it starts all right (with no error
message displayed) and it worked fine with KDE with or without the
message from gpm.

So, is this thing a "imps2" or should I be using some other protocol? I
looked but couldn't find anything helpful.

I should have been suspicious when I opened the box and there was an
installation disk included with the thing, but there you are.

Thomas Ronayne wrote :

> I have gpm starting with
>
> /usr/sbin/gpm -m /dev/mouse -t imps2 -3
>
> and, on reboot, got a message from gpm about incompatible protocol. If I
> restart gpm with "rc.gpm restart" it starts all right (with no error
> message displayed) and it worked fine with KDE with or without the
> message from gpm.

Check /etc/rc.d/rc.gpm to see if gpm is started with another protocol
than imps2 when you use "rc.gpm restart".

BTW imps2 is supposed to autodetect 2/3 buttons so maybe the -3 option
could be a problem.
--
Thomas O.

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| I've replaced a wheel-dead "Microsoft InteliMouse PS/2 Compatible" with
| a new "Microsoft Mouse Optical USB and PS/2 Compatible." Didn't want to
| fiddle with USB and plugged it into the PS/2 socket with the adapter
| included with the thing. I have gpm starting with
|
| /usr/sbin/gpm -m /dev/mouse -t imps2 -3
|
| and, on reboot, got a message from gpm about incompatible protocol. If I
| restart gpm with "rc.gpm restart" it starts all right (with no error
| message displayed) and it worked fine with KDE with or without the
| message from gpm.
|
| So, is this thing a "imps2" or should I be using some other protocol? I
| looked but couldn't find anything helpful.
|
| I should have been suspicious when I opened the box and there was an
| installation disk included with the thing, but there you are.

The following in my line for the touchpad on my Compaq Evo 800v notebook
and MS optical mouse.

Section "InputDevice"

~ Identifier "Mouse1"
~ Driver "mouse"
~ Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
~ Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"

EndSection

# If you only have one mouse, the following would probably be what you #
# need and change USB as the corepointer.

Section "InputDevice"

~ Identifier "USB"
~ Driver "mouse"
~ Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
~ Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
~ Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

EndSection


Serverlayout section:

~ InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
~ InputDevice "USB" "SendCoreEvents"

- --

Best regards,
Wong Kum Weng

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| If it happens once, it's a bug. |
| If it happens twice, it's a feature. |
| If it happens more than twice, it's a design philosophy. |
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