From: Ketil Froyn <ketilf@ifi.uio.no>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 10:59:51 +0200 (MET DST)

Re: XGGI

On Mon, 10 May 1999, Marcus Sundberg wrote:

> > > I have now tried to get my mouse working without much success... Shouldn't
> > > this more or less be a matter of copying the settings from XF86Config?
> No, XFree uses a quite different config file.

Yeah, but the settings should be the same, no? So if I use MouseSystems
and ClearDTR in XF86Config, I should do the same in libvga.conf?

> Try:
> mouse "MouseSystems" ClearDTR
> mdev /dev/mouse
> in /etc/vga/libvga.config

Is this different from using ClearDTR on a different line? Except, of
course, the correction you made about "MouseSystems" being MouseSystems.

> > We just happen to use the SVGAlib config file, to avoid making up yet
> > another config-file.
> Not completely true. We first look for ~/.ggi/input/linux-mouse and
> then for $prefix/etc/ggi/input/linux-mouse. Then we try to autodetect
> the mouse (currently only for PS/2, busmice and the GPM repeater),
> and only as a last resort we check the SVGAlib config file.

GPM repeater? Is that the gpm I have running on my console? I had gpm
running on my console, is that a problem? I did kill it after a while,
though, and I think I tried all the settings after that.

Ketil Froyn
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