On Wed, 26 May 1999, Vox wrote:
>
> Second question:
>
> Whenever I start Linux (I'm dualbooting till my modem gets here
:) and I
> start X, the mouse doesn't move....if I log in as root and do gpm -t ms
-R
> and then kill gpm (it doesn't work if I don't kill it), then log in to
> another console (without logging root off) as normal user and startx
the
> mouse works...but if I log off the root one, the mouse dies again, no
> matter if I am already in X or not....what the (*&^(^ is
> happening? And...how do I fix it? I don't like to have root loged
in....I
> really don't want to get distracted and mess something up :)
>
> Thanks in advance :)
>
> Vox
What do you have for Pointer in XF86Config? It sounds like maybe you
have /dev/gpmdata, and you want in your startup files, say
/etc/rc.d/rc.local:
/usr/bin/gpm -t ms -R
I admit I can't account for your observations, so I'm not real confident
about trying to fix it. How did you devise your mouse startup
procedure? And how are you killing gpm? gpm -k is the polite way to do
it. gpm forks and disconnects from the terminal, so if you're not
really killing it and instead X relies on it running, it should not be
bothered when root logs out. Possibly it might matter to gpm if it were
the _only_ text console. That would be a gpm bug, but perhaps
understandable.
Do you get any X diagnostics concerning the mouse when you first start
it (before messing with gpm)? startx &>oops to capture them all and see
for sure. Does gpm work? Alas, I have no mouse to try to amke a model
of this.
Enough!
Lawson
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