Re: X problems on inspiron 8000

[Luke Shulenburger <sluke@bartender.mit.edu>]

Thank you very much!  As soon as I removed gpm everything worked
perfectly.  Any idea why gpm has problems with X on the inspiron?
I have an alpha desktop running woody and it has no problems with
X and gpm conflicting... 

Luke
(sluke@mit.edu)

On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Andrew Taylor wrote:

> Luke - -
> 
> It could be a your gpm program which is supposed to enable your mouse in 
> a console. When I had gpm running on my laptop my mouse wouldn't function 
> in X.
> (Dell I7k, potato) I moved the gpm file from my /etc/init.d to my /root 
> directory (just to get it out of the init.d boot process, and it worked)
> Worth a try anyway...
> 
> Andy
>