Re: mouse hangs under X on Savage/MX

[Radu Muschevici <grinsefisch@gmx.ch>]

On Mon, 07 May, 2001 at 21:02:52 -0500, Roger Shaffer Jr . wrote:
> Strangely enough, I ran into the same problem on my laptop, but the
> solution was to uninstall gpm.  Probably just my own laziness, but I
> couldn't get a configuration of gpm and X that wouldn't have mouse
> problems, but removing gpm from the equation fixed it right up.
> 
> Rog
yes, it was gpm which caused the problem.
so the solution is to either 
 - uninstall gpm completely :-)
 - comment out the repeat statement in /etc/gpm.comf
 - use /dev/gpmdata in X instead of /dev/psaux.

thanks to all who answered
Radu