On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Chris Waters wrote: > OTOH, from earlier msgs in this thread, I gather there may be some minor > advantages to using a repeater, even if you don't need it, so I guess it > comes down to a matter of taste. Use the repeater if you need it, or if > you just want to. (Which replaces my old advice: use the repeater only > if you really need it.) > > Anyway, bottom line, I just want to emphasize that gpm and X do NOT > conflict, even WITHOUT the repeater, except, well, except when they do. > Advising *everyone* to remove gpm or set up the repeater is not > necessary -- only those people who are having problems (or who want the > features the repeater offers) should set up the repeater or purge gpm.
Unless you don't use the console at all I would recommend using gpm in repeater mode. If nothing else because you have to configure your mouse only once. You can setup X with a standard MouseSystems three button mouse on /dev/gpmdata in any case. And if you change from PS/2 to a serial mouse or vice versa, you just run gpmconfig and are done. -- 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 +++
