[ale] offtopic: Q2-Mouse: First you have it, then you don't

[Nomad the Wanderer]

  Some people consider Q2 problems off-topic so I just throw up the
warning...

  It's a serial.  Gpm does work with X and console at this  time,
but in a few mins I'll try and kill gpm and run it.

Thus spake ari (myo at thy.dyn.ml.org):

> It's about linux.  STOP CALLING IT OFF-TOPIC!@#
> 
> ok, that said...
> 
> i haven't played quake much, but first things first...
> 
> is it a ps/2 mouse or a serial?
> 
> I'm assuming you're running this from the console.  try killing gpm before
> running quake.  some ps/2 mice won't work with X servers if gpm is also
> running.
> 
> on another terminal, while playing, cat /proc/interrupts.  irq's are on the
> left, traffic is in the middle, and the device name is on the right.  a
> serial device name will be different from the ps/2 device name, of course.
> make sure you don't have any conflicts (i.e. 2 devices with the same irq).  if
> all is good, switch to the quake terminal, and move the mouse around.  don't
> touch the mouse while not on the quake screen.  switch back to the terminal,
> and cat /proc/interrupts again.  the traffic meter in the middle should have
> increased.
> 
> try those, for some problem solving suggestions...
> 
> ari
> 
> 
> Nomad the Wanderer (nomad at orci.com) said this stuff:
> 
> > OK,
> >   I'm hoping someone here will have a fix or atleast be able to tell me
> > what's broken.
> > 
> >   Quake2 in standard soft mode, I have mouse control.  If I either start
> > GL mode, or switch to GL mode, the mouse ceases to be useful.  It is 
> > completely missing.  If I switch back to "soft" mode I get mouse back.
> > 
> >   I have mouse with gpm of course.  Anyone got any ideas?
> > 
> > Robert
> > 
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> > 
> > http://www.orci.com/~nomad
> > 
> > DISCLAIMER:
> >       These are MY OPINIONS ALONE.  I speak for no-one else.
> > 
> > FYI:
> >  perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'

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Robert L. Harris                |   You mean you paid
Senior System Administrator II  |        MONEY for 
  at Great West Life.           \_    Service Pack '98???

http://www.orci.com/~nomad

DISCLAIMER:
      These are MY OPINIONS ALONE.  I speak for no-one else.

FYI:
 perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'