Heimo Claasen wrote:
>
> Example from harsh reality: In a number of failures with
> X-setups we found out that gpm (the general purpose mousedriver
> for textmode) was the real culprit, and throwing that one out
> freed the way (it's not needed with X anyway). That was pure
> luck from trial and error, and nowhere is there any hint in
> the docs.
Did you try 'man XF86Setup'? It directs you to:
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Quick-Start Guide to XFree86 Setup
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where Section 7.2 suggests killing gpm. You'll find the
"Quick-Start Guide" at /var/X11R6/lib/doc/QuickStart.doc
or somewhere similar.
The gpm conflict with X is well known. I have seen
reference to it in many places.
> (One guy here has promised to go through some of the
> source code to find out about the deeper reason
It's not esoteric. The gpm process and the X server
are both trying to control the same device.
Cheers,
Steven
- you wouldn't suppose to have even an "initiated" Linux user
> to do that all the time ?!).
>
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