Re: [Sheflug] Debian Box

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Thu, 11 May 2000, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> 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).

Yes, true. That said, I have gpm & X running concurrently on my system
(not using /dev/gpmdata), and it works fine. I've never seen a problem
with running both at once, but then, YMMV as usual ;)

Cheers,

Alex.

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