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Re: Two problems after reinstalling.



Nick Phillips wrote:
> 
> > One of them is that gpm and X won't work at the same time.  To move the
> > mouse in X I need to gpm -k.  This I didn't need to do before.
> 
> I don't know how the setup normally deals with this, but if you RTFM on
> gpm, you will see that it mentions that problem; if you have a serial
> mouse, then gpm and X will fight over it unless you use gpm's facility to
> pass on mouse info to the FIFO /dev/gpmdata. Then set X to use /dev/gpmdata
> as its mouse device (with Mouse Systems protocol).

Though this is a ps2 mouse and I had worked previously without any
modifications.  I'm just wondering if new default configs that came with
3.3.5 - the older install has 3.3.4 in first - are affecting anything.


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