gpm doesn't work with a defined mouse type of MS IntelliMouse on my Dell 5000 laptop. Not sure if it is fighting with the built in mouse or not (don't think so). The way around this is to tell X in XF86Config that I have an IntelliMouse, and in /etc/sysconfig/mouse indicate a 3 button PS/2. It would be nice if the truth (MS IntelliMouse) worked out-of-the-box.
you are saying you have externally plugged in a PS/2 MS Intellimouse, right? And you have a built-in mouse as well?
yes, that is what I am saying
I just verified that beta3 still has this problem. It seems that gpm can't take the "Microsoft - IntelliMouse (PS/2)" kind of mouse. Cut and paste fails badly on the console, but works perfectly in X. I saved my /etc/sysconfig/mouse to mouse.bak, then re-ran mouseconfig, and it gives me a mouse of type "Microsoft IntelliMouse (PS/2)". gpm still doesn't work after "service gpm restart", so this may be two bugs in one: gpm with InelliMice, and mouseconfig -vs- the installer.
*** Bug 23494 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
gpm 1.19.3-7 and later read a DEVICE line (if present) from /etc/sysconfig/mouse, and use that as an argument to gpm's -m option. mouseconfig-4.21 and later write this line, defaulting to "/dev/mouse", the symlink it makes to the actual device.
whoops, this was supposed to be a comment on bug 23500, sorry.
Josh: Are you still having problems with your intellimouse and gpm in 7.1 as released? We aren't having problems here in our lab. This may actually be a kernel issue...
Still having the same problems with my external mouse. I've updated to mouseconfig-4.22-1 and kernel 2.4.3-12, and I can't choose the MS Intellimouse and get gpm to work. It freaks out and places the cursor in the top-right part of the screen while randomly cutting and pasting anything on the screen. My procedure: service gpm stop rm -f /etc/sysconfig/mouse mouseconfig (choose MS Intellimouse PS2) (choose to update X config's mouse section) service gpm start This gives the gpm malfunction as described above, yet X works perfectly and can use scroll-wheel functionality. To solve the gpm problems, I am still forced to additional perform the following: service gpm stop mouseconfig (choose Generic 3 button PS2) (choose *NOT* to update X config's mouse section) service gpm start This works... X has the MS Intellimouse features, and gpm thinks it has the wheel as the middle button of a Generic 3 button PS/2. Still, it shouldn't be this way. I wonder if my built in touchpad mouse is somehow causing gpm to act strangly? I doubt it, as it doesn't work in X or with gpm when I have my external generic MS Intellimouse plugged in.
I've got strange mouse hardware, which seems to be the problem. I'll close the bug. Thank you Preston for spending the time on this one. JOshua