Re: gpm and X or not? - SOLVED

["Daniel S. Barclay" <daniel@compass-da.com>]

> From: edwalter@iname.com
...
> On Sat, 24 May 1997, George Bonser wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Everything I have read has always said to be sure to DISABLE gpm before
> > using X.
> > 
> > 
> > On Sat, 24 May 1997, Daniel S. Barclay wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > Can GPM and X co-exist or not?  
> > > 
> > > 
> 
> I have been running gpm and X at the same time for the last year and a
> half.  Never had a problem.  I have used them together without
> anything special and had no problems, but recently I changed to the
> more elegant configuration (taken from the man pages, of course):
> 
> device=/dev/ttyS1
> responsiveness=
> type=msc
> append="-3 -o dtr -R"      
> 
> The important part is the -R.  With this config, gpm creates pseudo
> mouse data on /dev/gpmdata.  Then I have /dev/mouse linked to
> /dev/gpmdata, and I can point all other programs (X, dosemu, etc) to
> /dev/mouse (configured as mouse systems).

Thanks.

Daniel


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