Bernie wrote:
> > HOWEVER, the problem of a wild mouse IN X-Windows, while
> > leaving an svga-lib Arachne open is still a VERY bad bug!
>
> This is either a problem with X vs gpm (the mouse driver for the
> console) (this is a well known one)
gpm is a daemon that runs all the time... on my machine
anyway. I generally have 4 or 5 consoles open, all using
gpm, and simultaneously using X.
> or something inside SVGAlib (unlikely IMHO).
It's not a gpm problem... and if it's not an SVGAlib problem,
then that means it's an Arachne problem.
> The fix is to not
> do like that (I know it's bad but that's the standard
> sollution to the gpm-X mouse problem).
So, are you saying that Arachne does indeed use gpm?
If so, then the problem would be with the way Arachne uses
gpm rather than with gpm itself.
- Steve
