Erik Mouw writes: > > Yes, it sure is. I already investigated this on a Sparc Classic (and > reported it to the list), to the point of running a strace on the X > server binary. > > The problem is that /dev/sunmouse is a "single open" device, so that > means that only one process is allowed to open the device. If you > install gpm, it will open /dev/sunmouse, so the X server can't use the > device. Gpm has a solution for this: the /dev/gpmdata repeater. > Unfortunately, the Xsun server tries to do some ioctl()s on its mouse > device which miserably fail, and the server decides to crash (no, it > doesn't matter which protocol /dev/gpmdata speaks). > > There are two solutions: > > - Mark gpm as conflicting with Xsun > - Modify the Xsun source to ignore the ioctl() errors so it will work > with /dev/gpmdata
It works on my Sun IPX and IPC, but I have noticed that gpm is killed after Xsun has started. -- PHAM Dinh Tuan | e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Laboratoire de Modelisation et Calcul | Tel: +33 4 76 51 44 23 BP 53, 38041 Grenoble cedex 9 (France) | Fax: +33 4 76 63 12 63 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
