According to Vox: While burning my CPU.
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> Kwira all :)
>
> I have a couple of questions (as usual...one of this days I'll have
> answers :)...first one:
Has been answered.
> 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 :)
Why are you using the -R option, a normal seriel mouse as yours (Microsoft)
(-t ms) would be started as;
gpm -t ms & It would need a symlink in the /dev/ dir, pointing to the comm
port, in this example thats comm1 /dev/ttyS0 "mouse -> ttyS0"
or
gpm -m /dev/mouse -t ms &
What you are doing is sending data to /dev/gpmdata by means of -R to which a
user quite possably may NOT use due to permissions.
Read 'man gpm' for a more detailed explanation.
>
> Thanks in advance :)
>
> Vox
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Regards Richard.
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