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rasteenb

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Registered: 2009-04-20

Posts: 19

[SOLVED] gpm not working on Acer Aspire One (150)

Hello:

I have not been able to use gpm on my ACER Aspire One (AAO) with the touchpad.
gpm does work, however, when I attach an external usb mouse (that has 3-button capability).

What I just discovered is if I highlight text in xterm with the touchpad while holding down the left button, it grabs the text into the buffer.  To paste it, however, I have to use the middle button of the USB mouse. 

I am hotplugging.

I have read the wikis on the AAO, synaptic, and gpm as well as various posts regarding these topics.  After reading them I:

- tried Xorg.conf variations suggested by the Wiki and failed to get one functioning  because I could get no keyboard response
- tried the various HAL  .fdi configurations suggested by the Wiki for the synaptic touchpad - touchpad seems to work O.K; still have to add the side scrolling but gpm still wasn't working
- edited the conf.d/gpm file to indicate the location of the touchpad discoved by running cat /proc/bus/input/devices | less

So far, no luck.  Has anyone successfully configured gpm on an AAO?

Thanks,
Rob

Last edited by rasteenb (2009-04-21 20:27:34)

rasteenb

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Registered: 2009-04-20

Posts: 19

Re: [SOLVED] gpm not working on Acer Aspire One (150)

Of course within a couple of hours of this post I figured it out.

I went to /etc/conf.d/gpm and added "-2" for two button mouse.

GPM_ARGS="-2 -m /sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio2/input/input8""

Now I can paste by simultaneously clicking the left/right buttons.

rs