On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 08:30:18PM +0000, James Young wrote:
> Now that I've switched the gpm repeater to ms3, switching from console to
> X is a lot faster. Thanks for pointing that out. But could you configure
> that package to, say, pop up a warning dialog about this before you throw
> the previous X config away? This can silently break X in such a way that
> downgrading doesn't help.
You'll see one if you have "apt-listchanges" installed and configured to
show you "news" items, which I believe is the default setting.
xfree86 (4.3.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
[...]
* GPM users only: those who use the the GPM repeater as the XFree86 X
server's mouse device should note that the mouse driver in XFree86 4.3.0
has been rewritten in such a way that using any protocol other than
"IntelliMouse" on the XFree86 side and "ms3" on the GPM side does not work
well. If you have configured GPM as a repeater, are using it with the
XFree86 X server, and are using anything other than "ms3" as the repeating
protocol, you will likely want to change it to "ms3". If your
XF86Config-4 file is automatically handled (see the news entry for xfree86
4.2.1-11) and uses /dev/gpmdata as the port for the configured mouse, the
protocol will automatically be migrated to "IntelliMouse" if necessary.
Otherwise, you will likely want to edit the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file
after installing this package to change any configured input devices using
the "mouse" driver and "/dev/gpmdata" as the "Device" option to set the
"Protocol" option to "IntelliMouse".
-- Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 01:47:32 -0500
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