RE: Keyboard/mouse problems with X

[Dinh-Tuan.Pham@imag.fr]

Erik Mouw writes:
 > 
 > Yes, it sure is. I already investigated this on a Sparc Classic (and
 > reported it to the list), to the point of running a strace on the X
 > server binary.
 > 
 > The problem is that /dev/sunmouse is a "single open" device, so that
 > means that only one process is allowed to open the device. If you
 > install gpm, it will open /dev/sunmouse, so the X server can't use the
 > device. Gpm has a solution for this: the /dev/gpmdata repeater.
 > Unfortunately, the Xsun server tries to do some ioctl()s on its mouse
 > device which miserably fail, and the server decides to crash (no, it
 > doesn't matter which protocol /dev/gpmdata speaks).
 > 
 > There are two solutions:
 > 
 > - Mark gpm as conflicting with Xsun
 > - Modify the Xsun source to ignore the ioctl() errors so it will work
 > with /dev/gpmdata

It works on my Sun IPX and IPC, but I have noticed that gpm is killed
after Xsun has started.

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