On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 05:17:45PM +0100, Vivek Dasmohapatra wrote:
> On Wed, 16 May 2001, Peter Cordes wrote:
>
> > Recent gpm versions (or maybe it's done this all along) will release the
>
> Judging from observer behaviour, I would guess that it has not done this
> all along.
>
> > mouse when you're not in X. I've got a couple systems with PS/2 mice, and
> > gpm/X don't have any problems interacting. Both X and gpm are reading from
> > /dev/psaux.
>
> Fine. Is this the case in potato? Or was it introduced in the woody
> package?
Somebody with a potato system try this out. strace gpm and see what it
does, just to be sure.
> > If you don't believe this, then use strace on GPM, and observe that it
> > close(2)s the mouse device when you switch back to X, and reopens it when
>
> I have no reason to disbelieve you,
good :)
> but until such time as all psaux
> grabbing software is this considerate, it's still a good thing to know,
> yes?
Right.
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