RE: gpm and x conflicting

["Christian Pernegger" <pernegger@chello.at>]

I haven't got a solution for you but the same problem (on a regular
machine)...

	MS IntelliMouse Explorer on PS/2

	Protocol IMPS/2

For the time being I purged gpm. :)

Christian


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Brosemer [mailto:odin@bolverk.penguinpowered.com]On Behalf
> Of Dan Brosemer
> Sent: Friday, May 05, 2000 9:14 PM
> To: Debian User List
> Subject: gpm and x conflicting
>
>
> I have gpm and X fighting for a ps2 mouse on my laptop.  I've tried
> repeating on with X looking at /dev/gpmdata using both PS/2 and MouseSystems
> protocols and repeating types msc, ms3, raw.  I've also tried having them
> both just look at /dev/psaux with the PS/2 protocol.
>
> If X uses the MouseSystems protocol, I get no motion at all when I move the
> mouse.  All other settings give me erratic mouse movements.
>
> X works great if I kill gpm first, but this seems like a suboptimal solution
> to me and I'm wondering if anyone has a better idea?
>
> -Dan