On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 07:20:01PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > > In other words, if you really are interested in using the mouse in X > > > applications, there's no need to muck around with gpm. In the most > > > recent revision changelog to the X packages, Branden says > > > (paraphrasing) if you insist on using gpm, you're on your own getting > > > the mouse to work in X. That's because gpm imterrupts X's access to > > > the hardware (as understand it). That's a pretty bad distortion of what the changelog means. > > I thought that this was only an issue with pre-4.x versions of XFree86, and > > that 4.x could actually be pointed at /dev/gpmdata. However if that is not > > the case, I have no problem turning gpm off before I start X. > > Hopefully Branden will weigh in here. All the changelog entry means is that you're on your own when it comes to figuring out which X mouse protocol your /dev/gpmdata device uses. I continue to assert that gpm is a waste of time for anyone who wants to use X. No one appears to want to deal with gpm at the Debian package level. It's maintainer certainly doesn't; he's looking to orphan it. -- G. Branden Robinson | No math genius, eh? Then perhaps Debian GNU/Linux | you could explain to me where you branden@debian.org | got these... PENROSE TILES! http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Stephen R. Notley
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