Re: I messed up my mouse...(G3 PB)
Josh wrote:
>
> I thought I'd check out gpm, and now my mouse (trackpad) is frozen in X
> (Gnome w/Enlightenment). I did gpm -k to kill it and de-installed gpm,
> and rebooted. But the mouse is still frozen.
Are you sure gpm isn't running? (check with ps aux|grep gpm)
I also had a frozen pointer sometimes but it went away when I killed gpm and
restarted X.
> Now I can't do anything, or even get to a terminal window to kill xdm (xdm
> keeps restarting X everytime I ctrl-cmd-del out of it).
ctrl-command-(fn-)F1 gets you to a console, where you can type (as root)
/etc/init.d/xdm stop
Michel
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Me? A skeptic? Can you prove it?
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ CS student and free software enthusiast
Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc,i386) user \ member of XFree86, Team *AMIGA*, AUGS
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