On Mon, 25 Aug 2036,  G P Singh wrote about,  what is gpm?:
> Hi Freinds
> Can anybody tell me what is gpm and what it do with mouse.

It is the mouse driver.

> Acually my problem is whenever gpm started or restarted my mouse stop
> functioning and i had to plug out the mouse and plug in again to use it. I
> have Microsoft(serial) two button mouse plugged at com2(ttyS1). 
> I had tried to change the IRQ for serial port with setserial command but it
> fails with message "device or resource is busy".

If your mouse is working then gpm is running.

To change the default device remove the symbolic link in /dev for mouse and
relink it to /dev/ttyS0 plug the mouse in the correct comport restart gpm.

gpm -t ms

man gpm

Setserial is not used to do this.
  
> GP
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