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Re: Problems installing/upgrading potato



>>>>> "Martijn" == Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@cupid.suninternet.com> writes:

    Martijn> Yes. This is true for PS/2 mice. The way to solve this is
    Martijn> to set gpm as a repeater and tell X (and svgalib if you
    Martijn> have it) to use /dev/gpmdata.

    Martijn> I do this for my serial mouse anyway as it makes my three
    Martijn> button mouse work reliably no matter how much I switch
    Martijn> consoles.

Is there any good reason why this is not the default?

(then again, gpm was already configured to use the repeater, it was
just my XF86Config setup that was broken).

-- 
Brian May <bam@debian.org>


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