On Wed, Jul 22, 1998 at 04:42:37PM +0200, Anders Hammarquist wrote: > >And what's up with gpm losing control of the mouse when > >xdm/Xwindows is running? Is that the poor handling of the tty's mentioned > >here earlier? Is that a kernel problem? Handled in the unstable kernel > >tree? > > Probably gpm and X not getting along when both are talking to /dev/mouse. > I'll look in to this and see if I can figure something out.
There is an option to gpm (-R) which causes it to act as a repeater. The idea is that it reads the mouse data and uses it when appropriate and forwards the movements (in some other format IIRC - MouseSystems?) to a device called /dev/gpmdata. On my Pentium box I have X configured to read from this and since then have never had problems. X for SPARC Linux doesn't appear to have a config file (not that I've hunted to hard) and so this trick isn't possible. I tried to trick X with a symlink to /dev/gpmdata but it doesn't support the VUIDGFORMAT ioctl. I guess the best thing would be to add support for mouse systems (or whatever the gpmdata format is) to X on Sparc. Ben -- +-----Ben Bell - "A song, a perl script and the occasional mistake."-----+ /// email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.deus.net/~bjb/ bjb Snail: 12 Ryton Close, Canley, Coventry, CV4 8HF, UK \_/ "Don't try to drive me crazy. I'm close enough to walk." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
