Re: odd gpm behavior
> I'm running potato, and have recently been having trouble with my
> mouse not working under X (XFree86 3.3.6), even though it worked
> fine on the console. That (and some tinkering and reading) led me
> to believe that gpm might be causing trouble.
>
> At the same time, my dialup with ppp and wvdial quit working a few
> days ago, for no reason that I could discover. pppd appeared to
> connect to my ISP, and I could ping the local IP assigned by pppd,
> but I was unable to ping the remote side.
>
> Anyway, I read somewhere that X controls the mouse very well all
> by itself, so I used 'update-rc.d -f gpm remove' to turn off gpm,
> and voila! Not only does my mouse work, but now pppd works again
> as well!
>
> I'm at work, and not able to test this yet, but tonight I'm going
> to start gpm again, and see if that breaks my pppd. Has anyone
> experienced this?
gpm has never broken my pppd, but the issue you mention is quite usual.
I don't remember much how I solved it, but these /dev settings were important, AFAIR.
These ones are mine and I can use both gpm and X without any trouble.
prw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 oct 2 03:22 gpmdata
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 oct 2 03:23 mouse -> psaux
You'll have more info in the mailing list archives.
Best,
Ignasi
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