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Re: gpm and X incompatible? (potato)



On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 12:18:42PM -0400, paul wrote:
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> In my expirience, this problem is mouse dependant, on one box I have a 
> mouse that requires a different protocol under gpm than under X-window but 
> the mouse will not auto-switch when X-window starts, so I don't run gpm on 
> that box.  On another the mouse works with the same protocol (msc) under 
> both gpm and X-window, but will not work in X-window if gpm is running, I 
> use runlevels (starting gpm in runlevel two, stoping gpm in runlevel three 
> and starting wdm).  Mostly I've decided to stop buying cheap mouses.

Have you ever read gpm manpage?
Configure gpm to act as repeater and use in X /dev/gpmdata as device.

Mirek



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