Re: Still No Cursor in X
Mr Albert , sorry about the mistake. I do appreciate you help. I looked at
the gpm info last night. I didn't see much. Anyway thanks for you help.
I'll keep trying and get this yes. John
----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Albert" <MartinAlbert@gmx.net>
To: "hammack" <hammack@ridgenet.net>
Cc: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 12:40 PM
Subject: Re: Still No Cursor in X
> On Mit, 31 Jan 2001, you wrote:
> > Albert, I tried the configuration you suggested. I got a cursor in the
>
> Please let me introduce myself as a man of wealth & taste and the name
> is martin 8-)
>
> > text mode but not in X. I was able to lite up menus.
> In X? Did you already try to find out about your X-server options? You
> did again not tell what server & window-manager you are using
>
> > After the "ls -al /dev/gpm* I only got the one line regarding gpmdata as
> > ..
> > What does it mean that the gpmctl entry is not there.
>
> This is a good question indeed. It took me nearly half an hour now to
> find out and i'm still not quite sure.
>
> This device entry 'named socket' is created when gpm is started, for
> instance on system start or when you manually run '/etc/init.d/gpm
> restart'.
>
> When this does not happen on your system, sth. is strange. As i didn't
> work with named sockets yet, i could only make wild guesses.
> It might be that your gpm is simply too old. Check the version with
> 'gpm -v'. I've got 1.17.8 and it works fine.
> You've got networking in your kernel (this is silly, nearly impossible
> you haven't).
> Do you run a debian system at all?
>
> Anyway this is strange. What kind of a system are you runnign there?
> If you can, try reinstalling gpm.
> Post where you've got your packages from, ideally the versions of gpm
> and X-server, it's name and the gfx card.
>
> > Thanks John Hammack@ridgenet.net.
> you're welcome
>
> greetings, martin
>
>
> --
> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org
> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact
listmaster@lists.debian.org
Reply to: