Re: gpm and X incompatible? (potato)

2000-06-27 Thread Nate Bargmann
FWIW, I ran gmp and X together under Slackware, Slink and now Potato. The biggest problem I found was that the gpm install set the repeat mode to ms3 (IIRC). The solution here was to simply set the repeat_type parameter in /etc/gpm.conf to an empty string. According to the man page the

Re: gpm and X incompatible? (potato)

2000-06-27 Thread John Anthony Kazos Jr.
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Mirek Kwasniak wrote: On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 12:18:42PM -0400, paul wrote: [...] In my expirience, this problem is mouse dependant, on one box I have a mouse that requires a different protocol under gpm than under X-window but the mouse will not auto-switch when

Re: gpm and X incompatible? (potato)

2000-06-27 Thread Kerstin Hoef-Emden
Hi, On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, paul wrote: In my expirience, this problem is mouse dependant, on one box I have a mouse that requires a different protocol under gpm than under X-window but the mouse will not auto-switch when X-window starts, so I don't run gpm on that box. It is mouse

Re: gpm and X incompatible? (potato)

2000-06-27 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 02:04:20PM -0500, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote: [...] That was how it was configured by default when I installed potato, and when I would move the mouse it would jump randomly around the screen, usually not being drawn, and all of the buttons would click randomly,

Re: gpm and X incompatible? (potato)

2000-06-26 Thread Kerstin Hoef-Emden
Hi John, On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote: Killing gpm (through gpm -k and /etc/init.d/gpm stop) makes the mouse work in X and fixes the display problems in the framebuffer. Does anyone have any ideas about what could be causing this? How does your setup in XF86Config in

Re: gpm and X incompatible? (potato)

2000-06-26 Thread Mike Werner
Brenda J. Butler wrote: On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 02:58:21PM +0200, Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: Hi John, On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote: Killing gpm (through gpm -k and /etc/init.d/gpm stop) makes the mouse work in X and fixes the display problems in the

Re: gpm and X incompatible? (potato)

2000-06-26 Thread Brenda J. Butler
On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 02:58:21PM +0200, Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: Hi John, On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote: Killing gpm (through gpm -k and /etc/init.d/gpm stop) makes the mouse work in X and fixes the display problems in the framebuffer. Does anyone have any

Re: gpm and X incompatible? (potato)

2000-06-26 Thread paul
Mike said: Brenda J. Butler wrote: On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 02:58:21PM +0200, Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: Hi John, On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote: Killing gpm (through gpm -k and /etc/init.d/gpm stop) makes the mouse work in X and fixes the display

Re: gpm and X incompatible? (potato)

2000-06-26 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 12:18:42PM -0400, paul wrote: [...] In my expirience, this problem is mouse dependant, on one box I have a mouse that requires a different protocol under gpm than under X-window but the mouse will not auto-switch when X-window starts, so I don't run gpm on that box.

gpm and X incompatible? (potato)

2000-06-25 Thread John Anthony Kazos Jr.
I'm using X 3.3.6-8 with xserver-svga 3.3.6-8 and tdfx-dri 4.0.00-2 (through alien) and gpm 1.17.8-16.1 with a 3dfx framebuffer at 1024x768-60 on a 3dfx Voodoo3 2000 with a PS/2 mouse on /dev/psaux. After X is started, and I switch back to tty1, no textual output occurs (by typing, by program