[plug] gpm

[Paul Dean]

Hya Craig,

GPM seems to be funny on your machine.
When we were playing around if you remember we needed to start and stop then
start again gpm for it to work properly.
Remember the "-D" for debug output to the console, for some reason this
allowed gpm to figure out an set the right params for the kernel to
understand.
I not quite sure why it does this but maybe there is something in the
kernel that we overlooked, and when we started gpm the second time the
kernel compensated for any problems.
Your script seems fine to me, I would look closer at gpm and maybe
compiling it with some extra params or have a wade thru the kernel
options, check also you logs for anything unusual

Hope this helps...

On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Craig Dyke wrote:

> During installfest I had someone help me get gpm working.
> 
> We discovered that the correct arguements are:
> 
> 	gpm -m /devices/misc/psaux -t imps2
> 
> When typed in at the command line this works fine.
> I decided from here that I would like this to be done on entry into
> init level 3 and switched off at level 5.
> I produced the following script:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> #Retrieve PID
> 
> PID=/var/run/gpm.pid
> 
> case $1 in
>         start)  echo "$1ing gpm."
>                 gpm -m /devices/misc/psaux -t imps2
>                 ;;
>         stop)   echo "$1ing gpm."
>                 killall -QUIT gpm; rm $PID
>                 ;;
>         *)      echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop}"
>                 ;;
> esac
> 
> 
> Problem is that when this is run on startup I get errors and mouse does not 
> work correctly :(
> 
> gpm[99]: === ERROR ===: [/usr/src/gpm-1.20.0/src/mice.c(1740)]:
> gpm[99]: imps2: PS/2 mouse failed to read id, assuming standard PS/2
> 
> Is there a problem with the script or something else??
> 
> Craig
> 

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