Something that'll probably work: Stop gpm when using X, that'll probably allow you to use your mouse in X
Ron Rademaker On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Marvin Stodolsky wrote: > This is an early warning concerning mouse function, whose relevance to > you will depend upon your particular hardware and XF86Config file. > > Currently all is fine on my desktop which is mostly a Slink/Stable > installation. The gpm console mouse daemon is running with affecting my > good functionality under Xwindows. In my XF86Config, the default > selection for mouse, /dev/mouse, is fine, where in my file system > /dev/mouse is a symbolic link to /dev/ttyS0. It's releavant that > ls -l /dev/g* > reports no devices. > > The same was true for my Compaq Armada laptop until yesterday, except > /dev/mouse -> /dev/psaux supporting a touchpad mouse. When I upgraded > gpm from Frozen with > dpkg -i gpm_1.17.8-16 > Xwindows mouse function was lost. Degrading back to Stable with > dpkg -i gpm_1.14-3 > DID NOT cure the problem. After much hunting around the problem was > unraveled. > > Under gpm_1.17.8-16, /dev/gpmdata and /dev/gpmctrl were created and the > mouse symbolic link switched WITHOUT warning: > /dev/mouse -> /dev/gpmdata > which didn't serve my Xwindows at all well. Within XF86Config changing > /dev/mouse to /dev/psaux did fix the Xwindows problem, though I also had > to "/etc/init.d/gpm stop" before startx. > > Also for my hardware at least the Stable gpm_1.17.8-1 is better. > > A regular Bug report has been filed, but this may save some of you > problems. > > MarvS > > > /dev/mousr -> > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
