Re: X problems on inspiron 8000
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
>
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