From: David Goodlad (dgoodlad@junction.net)
Date: Mon 24 Aug 1998 - 22:50:37 IDT
Hmm... What quake are you trying to use? I use squake and it works for me... David Peter 'Joorin Ashes' Flystam wrote: > Thanks for the tips. > > I'm sorry to have to tell you that it didn't work :'( > I'm just wondering if there are some other linuxquakers out there using > the same setup as I am that get this to work? > Since the mouse is quite popular I hope that somewhere there is someone > with that vital piece of info. ;P~ > > I'll give you a snip from the libvga.config-file: > mouse microsoft > #mouse gpm > mdev /dev/gpmdata > > I start quake with -mdev /dev/gpmdata but it doen't work anyway. This tip > that I got about 'mouse_override' doesn't get me anywhere since i don't > know what mouse_override does or what syntax I should use. > > Plese help > Peter Flystam > > On Mon, 24 Aug 1998, David Goodlad wrote: > > > On Mon, 24 Aug 1998, Peter 'Joorin Ashes' Flystam wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I've got these odd problems with getting my MS serial v2.1a mouse to > > work > > > under svgalib-1.3.0. > > > As you might know for this mouse to work for example under XFree86 one > > has > > > to run gpm-1.13 and tell the X-server that /dev/gpmdata is the mouse > > > device. > > > I think that's what I need to do in some way to make my mouse work in > > > LinuxQuake. Have you encountered this problem before or do you have > > any > > > tips except setting mouse type to gpm in /etc/vga/vgalib.config? > > > > If you want to use gpm (which is actually very choppy, I can't stand it) > > with quake in linux, I believe that not only do you have to put "mouse > > Microsoft" and "mdev /dev/gpmdata" (without the quotes and on separate > > lines) in /etc/vga/libvga.config, but when you're starting quake, you've > > got to run it with the command-line-option "-mdev /dev/gpmdata". > > > > Hope this helps, > > David
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