Re: gpm screwing up X
That probably had more to do with the other FAQ problem of /dev/mouse
being created as a symlink to gpmdata instead of to sunmouse. Changing
the symlink is enough on my systems, anyway...
Aaron
On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Bolan Meek wrote:
> Greetings: God bless you.
>
> I got snagged by the default installation of gpm on one the two
> SS20s on which I installed potato/sparc today: X would not
> come up, as in
> http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-sparc-0004/msg00131.html ,
> with a fix offered in
> http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-sparc-0004/msg00133.html .
>
> I did this, and it still would not work, until I deleted, by hand,
> since dselect purge did not, /dev/gpmdata and /etc/gpm.conf.
> Then, after exiting X, I saw:
> "Cannot open /dev/gpmdata, error 2. Trying /dev/sunmouse".
>
> I suppose I could make it look directly for /dev/sunmouse,
> if I knew what configuration file it's using. I looked
> for it in /etc/X11/XF86Config, but that file doesn't exit,
> even though there is a link to it:
> # ls -l /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config
> .... /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config -> /etc/X11/XF86Config
>
> I'm considering filing a wishlist BR so that gpm is not
> selected by default during installation.
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