On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Chris Waters wrote: > Manfred Wassmann wrote: > > > [...] the problem is with PS/2 > > and other bus mice only. With such a mouse you still have to use the > > repeater mode or kill gpm before starting X because the mouse device can > > only be opened by one process at a time. > > An interesting theory, but both my laptop (tp600e running potato) and my > home system (hand-rolled athlon box running sid) stand as > counter-examples. Both have PS/2 mice, both use gpm and X without any > repeater and without any conflicts or problems.
This theory is the official explanation in the gpm docs. I read this first when I experienced the mouse being dead when starting X with gpm running on my Asus SP3G five years ago. And I think it is a very reasonable explanation for that behavior. > I've been curious about the gpm vs. X problems for a long time, since > I've heard many people report these problems, but I've never seen any > problems on any of a dozen boxes I've set up over the years. I still > have no concrete ideas about what causes such problems, but I can assure > you that it's not as simple as you seem to think. The only conclusion > I've been able to come to is that things work fine except when they > don't. -- Manfred Wassmann PGP and GnuPG public keys available at http://germany.keyserver.net PGP: 24B81049 Fingerprint: D7 10 EE 2B 74 16 C0 64 B4 5F BA B2 90 29 3D AF GPG: 6B299971 Fingerprint: A598 A41F 57A3 5D69 83D2 8027 1274 F8CD 6B29 9971 +++ I18N ? For international language set LANG=POSIX +++
