Re: gpm, X-Windows, MS Serial mouse

[Syrus Nemat-Nasser <syrus@ucsd.edu>]

On Sun, 23 Mar 1997, Curtis L. Daugaard wrote:

> Before I changed to Debian, I could swear that under Slackware I was
> able to use my MS serial mouse in X-Windows without first killing gpm. 
> No more.  X refuses to start, complaining "device in use."
> 
> I've tried everything I can think of based on the documentation for gpm,
> including invoking the -M option and pointing the XF86Config file
> to /dev/gpmdata.
> 
> My current serial settings: gpm set to /dev/cua2 and XF86Config to
> /dev/ttyS2.
> 
> Can anybody tell me the secret?

While I'm not 100% sure that this will end your problems, I am 100% sure 
that the first thing to try is pointing gpm to /dev/ttyS2.  The ttySX's 
handle some things (like device locking) differently than the 
/dev/cuaX's.  Certainly, you should use the same name for you mouse dev 
in both cases.

Syrus.

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Syrus Nemat-Nasser <syrus@ucsd.edu>    UCSD Physics Dept.