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. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE
