pointing device on thinkpad

[Richard Lyons]

Woody bf2.4 on Thinkpad570. I have "mouse" (that red nipple in the
middle of the keyboard) working normally in X, but nothing when in
text mode. I can't see anything obviously relevant on google. Can
anyone point me in the right direction? I am particularly keen to
have middle button cut-and-paste active - I hate copying long paths
and filenames.

TIA

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[Tom Badran]

On Thursday 31 Jul 2003 11:31, Richard Lyons wrote:

> Woody bf2.4 on Thinkpad570. I have "mouse" (that red nipple in the
> middle of the keyboard) working normally in X, but nothing when in
> text mode. I can't see anything obviously relevant on google. Can
> anyone point me in the right direction? I am particularly keen to
> have middle button cut-and-paste active - I hate copying long paths
> and filenames.

you need gpm running to get a mouse on the console. (apt-get install gpm)

And you will then want to reconfigure x to read from the gpm device rather
than directly from the mouse

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[Sharninder Singh]

> Woody bf2.4 on Thinkpad570. I have "mouse" (that red nipple in the
> middle of the keyboard) working normally in X, but nothing when in
> text mode. I can't see anything obviously relevant on google. Can
> anyone point me in the right direction? I am particularly keen to
> have middle button cut-and-paste active - I hate copying long paths
> and filenames.
>

the console is a text based mode. The mouse won't be active unless u load
drivers and all explicitely. u need to look at the gpm server.

HTH
sharninder


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[Richard Lyons]

On Thursday 31 July 2003 11:30, Tom Badran wrote:
[...]

> you need gpm running to get a mouse on the console. (apt-get
> install gpm)
>
> And you will then want to reconfigure x to read from the gpm device
> rather than directly from the mouse

Aah. You don't happen to know exactly how that configuration should
look? On installing gpm, it does
Configuring gpm:
Current configuration: -m /dev/psaux -t autops2 -Rms3
Device: /dev/psaux
Type: autops2
Repeat type: ms3
Do you want to change anything (Y/n)?

Err... do I?

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[Richard Lyons]

On Thursday 31 July 2003 12:25, Tom Badran wrote:

> On Thursday 31 Jul 2003 12:23, Richard Lyons wrote:

> > On Thursday 31 July 2003 11:30, Tom Badran wrote:
> > [...]
> >

> > > you need gpm running to get a mouse on the console. (apt-get
> > > install gpm)
> > >
> > > And you will then want to reconfigure x to read from the gpm
> > > device rather than directly from the mouse

> >
> > Aah. You don't happen to know exactly how that configuration
> > should look? On installing gpm, it does

>
> Sorry mate, i dont use it so i cant be exactly sure.
>
> The gpm configuration looked fine, then do a dpkg-reconfigure
> xfree86-common (or is it xserver-xfree86) and on the question about
> the mouse there you use /dev/gpmdata (or something similiar, its in
> the list of available options)

Thanks for trying to help. Just for the record, that did not work.
The thinkpad pointing device works fine in X set up as psaux+PS/2.
/dev/gpmdata kills it completely. In neither case will it work
outside of X. Hey-ho, so it goes.

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[Antony Gelberg]

> > On Thursday 31 Jul 2003 12:23, Richard Lyons wrote:

> Thanks for trying to help. Just for the record, that did not work.
> The thinkpad pointing device works fine in X set up as psaux+PS/2.
> /dev/gpmdata kills it completely. In neither case will it work
> outside of X. Hey-ho, so it goes.

Not that it really solves the issue, but how about not using the console -
just use xterms?

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[Richard Lyons]

On Thursday 31 July 2003 14:22, Antony Gelberg wrote:

> > > On Thursday 31 Jul 2003 12:23, Richard Lyons wrote:

> >
> > Thanks for trying to help. Just for the record, that did not
> > work. The thinkpad pointing device works fine in X set up as
> > psaux+PS/2. /dev/gpmdata kills it completely. In neither case
> > will it work outside of X. Hey-ho, so it goes.

>
> Not that it really solves the issue, but how about not using the
> console - just use xterms?

To be honest, that is what I usually do. But I always set up text
login, and when I log on as root, I try to stay that way. Also when
I am configuring anything X or WM, I usually play safe and log out of
X. And when something goes wrong and I cannot start a WM, then I
don't want the added inconvenience of no mouse. Perhaps I've been
spoilt by RH...

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[Brian P. Flaherty]

Richard Lyons <richard@the-place.net> writes:

>
> Thanks for trying to help. Just for the record, that did not work.
> The thinkpad pointing device works fine in X set up as psaux+PS/2.
> /dev/gpmdata kills it completely. In neither case will it work
> outside of X. Hey-ho, so it goes.

I don't have your machine, I have a newer thinkpad with the little red
pointer. But I use gpm and X works fine. On my thinkpad, my gpm.conf
has:

device=/dev/psaux
responsiveness=
repeat_type=msc
type=autops2
append=""
sample_rate=

Type msc above is MouseSystems Protocol in the XF86Config-4 file:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/gpmdata"
Option "Protocol" "MouseSystems"
EndSection

I hope this is helpful.

Brian


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[Vineet Kumar]

* Richard Lyons (richard@the-place.net) [030731 04:20]:

> On Thursday 31 July 2003 11:30, Tom Badran wrote:
> [...]

> > you need gpm running to get a mouse on the console. (apt-get
> > install gpm)
> >
> > And you will then want to reconfigure x to read from the gpm device
> > rather than directly from the mouse

>
> Aah. You don't happen to know exactly how that configuration should
> look? On installing gpm, it does
> Configuring gpm:
> Current configuration: -m /dev/psaux -t autops2 -Rms3
> Device: /dev/psaux
> Type: autops2
> Repeat type: ms3
> Do you want to change anything (Y/n)?
>
> Err... do I?

I dunno about you, but I would. =)

Here's how I'm doing it (on a thinkpad t23, not that it really matters):

/etc/gpm.conf:

device=/dev/misc/psaux
responsiveness=
repeat_type=raw
type=ps2
append=""
sample_rate=

/etc/X11/XF86Config-4:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/gpmdata"
Option "Protocol" "GlidePointPS/2"
EndSection


The key thing that you're missing is repeat_type=raw in the gpm.conf.
Oh, and mine says /dev/misc/psaux, which is the devfs path. /dev/psaux
is probably what you want on your system.

good times,
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[arief_mulya]

Dear all,

On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 04:59, Brian P. Flaherty wrote:

> Richard Lyons <richard@the-place.net> writes:

> >
> > Thanks for trying to help. Just for the record, that did not work.
> > The thinkpad pointing device works fine in X set up as psaux+PS/2.
> > /dev/gpmdata kills it completely. In neither case will it work
> > outside of X. Hey-ho, so it goes.

>
> I don't have your machine, I have a newer thinkpad with the little red
> pointer. But I use gpm and X works fine. On my thinkpad, my gpm.conf
> has:
>
> device=/dev/psaux
> responsiveness=
> repeat_type=msc
> type=autops2
> append=""
> sample_rate=
>
> Type msc above is MouseSystems Protocol in the XF86Config-4 file:
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Configured Mouse"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "CorePointer"
> Option "Device" "/dev/gpmdata"
> Option "Protocol" "MouseSystems"
> EndSection
>
> I hope this is helpful.
>
> Brian

I use gpm-1.20 from the CVS, change the gpm executable in the
/etc/init.d/gpm into /usr/local/bin/gpm

And use this for my T30 (has red pointer and a touchpad at once!):
gpm.conf:
device=/dev/psaux
repeat_type=imps2
type=synps2
append="-3 -S ''"

XF86Config-4:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/gpmdata"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Hope that helps.


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