On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 06:55:50PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
| On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 12:41:05PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
| > On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 06:07:00PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
| > [...]
| > | gpm is a massive pain in the ass to deal with,
| >
| > Care to explain? (I disagree, gpm is a piece of cake)
|
| gpm complicates configuring XF86 badly from my experience. It's like
| trying to grow anything hydroponically: It can be done, but it really
| complicates things.
The complication is eliminated if you follow two guidelines :
1) don't try to have two processes fighting over a device, let
gpm have the device and X reads from gpm's repeater
2) use the same protocol for both (duh! it's the same mouse, it
better be the same protocol :-)) (and set gpm's
repeat_type to raw)
I've never had any interaction problems following these rules. I have
seen many people get confused and/or misconfigured by the combination,
but the above has always worked.
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