> Yeah, that happens to some people, desktoppers and laptoppers alike. > I've been doing this stuff for years and still haven't figured out > what makes a system like or hate gpm.
/dev/psaux can only usefully be held open by one process at a time, if you have a non-X-aware gpm, and both X and gpm want the psaux device, they will fight. And they'll both lose. As will you. Which is why it's a good idea to use gpm's repeater functionality and let X have /dev/gpmdata instead if you want both to have it... [recent gpm's are reported as being considerate enough to close /dev/psaux when you switch to the VT with X on it, although presumably this means that /dev/gpmdata will stop working for X... hmm.... that may explain something...] -- "I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every moment of it" - Anon
