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I have a three-button Genius mouse that, set as a PS/2 mouse on
/dev/psaux, works fine with gpm. However, it's dying.

So, I went out and bought a MouseSystems PS/2 Optical Mouse, also
three-button. It works fine on a Windows 98 machine.

However, I can't get gpm to recognise it. I try telling it it's on
/dev/psaux and have tried types ps2, ms, msc, etc., etc... but no
joy. Also, despite the fact that I shut down xdm, etc. before running
it, gpm-mouse-test variously hangs the computer completely or fails to
respond at all to me performing a requested action then pressing a
key.

Does anyone else have one of these mice working?

-- Mark

It turns out to be a regular PS/2 mouse. My mistake was that, because
gpmconfig starts gpm after you've put your settings into it, I figured
it stops it before it tries to change the settings. Instead, despite
having a previous gpm running, it claims to be starting one, except
that the new changes didn't actually take effect! Stopping gpm before
running gpmconfig made it work as expected.

I won't be making that mistake again. (-:

-- Mark