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Re: xserver-xsun broken!



I went and got the xserver-xsun deb from slink (3.3.2 ugh) and it worked.
It is very buggy though, if i switch to a console and back to X, graphics are all
messed and whatnot.

Wonder if this helps anyone
Dayton.

Paul Vojta wrote:

> On Fri, 14 Jul 2000 08:25:11 -0400 (EDT),
> Ben Roberts <broberts@mbhs.edu> wrote:
> > If it's trying to open gpmdata, make sure XF86Config uses the correct mouse
> > device.  Look for something like:
> >
> > Section "Mouse"
> >   Device "/dev/<some device>"
> >
> > that device should be sunmouse, I suspect it may be set to /dev/mouse, which
> > probably is symlinked to the supposed gpmdata socket.  However the device in
> > XF86Config should be explicit anyways, so you should change this line to
> > /dev/sunmouse, and if you don't have gpm just remove /dev/mouse IF it's really
> > a symlink.
>
> Huh??  xserver-xsun doesn't use XF86Config.
>
> --Paul Vojta, vojta@math.berkeley.edu
>
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