[plug] Quake 2 - Different problem

[Matt Kemner]

On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Trevor Phillips wrote:

> But NO MOUSE CONTROL!! (Basically rendering multiplayer unplayable. -_^)
> 
> It was hassling me about a svga config file somewhere (sorry; not under Linux

/etc/vga/libvga.config by any chance?

> After that, it stopped complaining about misconfigured mouse, but it still
> doesn't work!

Try changing your gpm config so that you pass it the -R option, then check
you have a fifo called /dev/gpmdata (if not, create one with mkfifo
/dev/gpmdata), then change your Mouse config (in libvga.config) to
MouseSystems and tell quake2 (I forget the option, but it's there) to look
at /dev/gpmdata for the mouse.

It means if you have a 3 button mouse you can get the 3rd button working
too. :)

The same setup works great for X too, which refuses to use my third button
when it talks to the mouse directly, but is quite happy to use it when
talking via gpm.

 - Matt