Re: [Sheflug] Debian Box

[Alastair Donlon <nospam [at] netsoc.ucd.ie>]

On Thu, May 11, 2000 at 12:11:20PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> >>>>> "Al" == Al Hudson <eah106 [at] york.ac.uk> writes:
> 
> There is a little detail that GPM and Xserver both like to own the
> mouse.  So if GPM is running when you start the X server, you may have
> a lot of trouble (I've only observed this once, on a Gateway 2000
> notebook).  In that case you need to either kill off GPM (the old
> solution, and the one I'm using) or tell Xserver that the mouse is the
> GPM repeater device (something in /dev, /dev/gpmdata according to man,
> but it don't exist on my office system so I'm not sure).
> 

/dev/gpmdata is a named pipe (aka FIFO). When gpm is started with
the -R flag, it spits the output to /dev/gpmdata. This can be used
as a 'device' in the Pointer section of the XF86Config file, with the
'Protocol' set to MouseSystems. Very useful, I've found.

A.D.

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