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 -- G. Branden Robinson | I must despise the world which does Debian GNU/Linux | not know that music is a higher branden@debian.org | revelation than all wisdom and http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | philosophy. -- Ludwig van Beethoven
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