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Re: A couple of debian bugs...



> 2. gpm - must be killed or X won't start, even though I have a serial
> mouse. According to the docs, this should only be true with busmice.

You have to use the ttyS* device for your mouse to work with gpm and
X.  Even then, it will still have problems occasionally.  IMHO, you
should use gpm's -R option to have it feed mouse events to X.  It's a
little less efficient but doesn't cause as many problems.

David
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David Engel                        Optical Data Systems, Inc.
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