That probably had more to do with the other FAQ problem of /dev/mouse being created as a symlink to gpmdata instead of to sunmouse. Changing the symlink is enough on my systems, anyway...
Aaron On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Bolan Meek wrote: > Greetings: God bless you. > > I got snagged by the default installation of gpm on one the two > SS20s on which I installed potato/sparc today: X would not > come up, as in > http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-sparc-0004/msg00131.html , > with a fix offered in > http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-sparc-0004/msg00133.html . > > I did this, and it still would not work, until I deleted, by hand, > since dselect purge did not, /dev/gpmdata and /etc/gpm.conf. > Then, after exiting X, I saw: > "Cannot open /dev/gpmdata, error 2. Trying /dev/sunmouse". > > I suppose I could make it look directly for /dev/sunmouse, > if I knew what configuration file it's using. I looked > for it in /etc/X11/XF86Config, but that file doesn't exit, > even though there is a link to it: > # ls -l /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config > .... /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config -> /etc/X11/XF86Config > > I'm considering filing a wishlist BR so that gpm is not > selected by default during installation.
