Re: HELP lost my mouse
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 05:32:23PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
> Ross Boylan wrote:
>
> >I'm running X and I just ran the gpm configuration tool. Although I
> >said n for whether I had anything to change, I lost the mouse after it
> >closed.
> >
> >Is there some way I can get it back so I can at least shut my stuff
> >down properly?
> >
> >(Background: xdos of the dosemu package wasn't recognizing my mouse,
> >and I wanted to check my settings for X so I could put them in
> >dosemu.conf.)
> >
> >I'm on X 4.0 with sawfish as the window manager. Gnome desktop, with
> >gdm starting things off.
> >
> >
> Ctrl-Alt-F1 to switch to the first virtual terminal
> Log in as root
> type "/etc/init.d/gpm stop" This will turn off gpm until the next reboot
> or running of gpm/gpmconfig.
>
> Kent
>
Thanks. gpm start, actually.
I thought my existing X wouldn't be able to hook up with a newly
started mouse driver, but it seems it can.
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