Re: gpm and X incompatible? (potato)

[Nate Bargmann <n0nb@networksplus.net>]

FWIW, I ran gmp and X together under Slackware, Slink and now Potato.
The biggest problem I found was that the gpm install set the repeat mode
to ms3 (IIRC).  The solution here was to simply set the repeat_type
parameter in /etc/gpm.conf to an empty string.  According to the man
page the repeat_type will be set to the device type, in my case
/dev/psaux.  With this configuration I have the XF86Config set to use
/dev/mouse which is itself a link to /dev/gpmdata.  X and console both
work well.

HTH,

- Nate >>

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