Re: Need Reasons for switching to Debian from Redhat
On Sat, 20 Jul 2002 10:51:12 -0500
Derrick 'dman' Hudson <dman@dman.ddts.net> wrote:
> The procedure involves knowing what the user wants. Step 1 of the
> procedure is to determine which device node the mouse is hooked into.
> Step 2 is to determine what protocol the mouse uses. Step 3 is to
> determine whether or not to run gpm. It goes like this :
>
> 1) point gpm at the mouse device (eg /dev/psaux but depends on
> your hardware)
> 2) tell gpm the correct protocol to use
> 3) set it up in "raw" repeat mode (this _should_ be the default,
> but I don't know if it is)
This is not necessary. It is but _one_ way to solve the problem. It is
possible to have gpm and X both natively controlling the mouse so long as
you tell gpm _not_ to repeat. Perhaps this would be a safer default.
> | The problem is that it's not just that. There are a whole series of
> | things that don't work unless you know the "tricks". Tricks
> | like:
>
> | Edit source list by hand
>
> This is only necessary if you don't want "stable". (eg when
> installing a non-stable branch, which isn't a default anyways)
Not quite true. The testing branch up until it was frozen would create a
sources.list file with testing references. For some reason, when testing
was frozen (or just before), it started creating sources.list files that
referenced stable instead. Thus, introducing a somewhat confusing bug
that no one saw a need to fix. Granted anyone that followed this list
would have a good idea how to correct it, but there was little to no need
to create the problem in the first place.
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Jamin W. Collins
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