On Fri, 19 May 2000, Josh wrote: > > Are you sure gpm isn't running? (check with ps aux|grep gpm) > > It doesn't seem to be. I even purged gpm with dpkg. I don't know if I > changed > anything else while nessing around with gpm. My XFree86Config file has device > set to /dev/mouse and protocol BusMouse, which is what was working before.
Take a look at /dev/mouse. This is usually a symlink to another device (for PowerMac owners, /dev/adbmouse or /dev/usbmouse). The gpm install may have changed it to point to the gpm repeater /dev/gpmdata.