Re: pointing device on thinkpad

From: Tom Badran (tb100_at_doc.ic.ac.uk)
Date: 07/31/03

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Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 12:25:58 +0100

    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)

    Tom 

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