Hi,
When you go through the configuration process, the
setup program will setup the rc.gpm properly.
--- Jesper Juhl <juhl@eisenstein.dk> wrote:
>
> I got an error during boot about the -t option
> missing an argument. When
> I looked in /etc/rc.d/rc.gpm I saw that this was
> indeed the case. I also
> took a look at the /dev/mouse link, and it's
> symlinked to /dev/cua0
>
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Nov 30
> 01:10 /dev/mouse -> cua0
>
> that seems a bit strange to me all the Alphas I've
> come across have used
> ps/2 mice, never serial mice. So wouldn't it be a
> more logical default to
> have /dev/mouse symlinked to /dev/psaux ?
> That's what I changed it to on my box.
>
> The missing parameter for -t is the mouse type
> (ps2), and after adding
> that (and fixing the symlink) then rc.gpm works
> nicely. See below for
> patch to rc.gpm
>
>
> --- rc.gpm~ Thu Nov 30 19:05:19 2000
> +++ rc.gpm Fri Dec 1 00:41:31 2000
> @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
> # Running gpm
> echo "Running gpm..."
> -gpm -m /dev/mouse -t
> +gpm -m /dev/mouse -t ps2
> # There is another way to run GPM, where it acts as
> a repeater
> outputting a
> # virtual MouseSystems mouse on /dev/gpmdata. This
> is useful for
> feeding
> # gpm's data to X, especially if you've got a
> busmouse (in that
> situation X
>
>
> Best regards,
> Jesper Juhl - juhl@eisenstein.dk
>
>
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