on 25/02/2002 12:57, Chris Tillman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 03:50:58PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> Cool, thanks for the tip. I have tried /dev/input/mice, but maybe it'll work >> this time with the dpkg-reconfigure. (hopefully). Seeing the desktop is like >> seeing something you want, but there's a 6 inch piece of glass blocking you >> from touching it. > > You might also try disabling gpm. I understand it can interfere with X if > not set up right.
oh, ok. It (gpm) works fine in the debian console, but when I go into X, it does nothing. (I said this before, sorry) Ok, so when I've already started up, how do I kill an app that's been loaded by the init.d stuff? is it "killall -HUP [name of app/daemon]"? I tried dpkg-reconfigure, it didn't work. It told me that debconf wasn't installed or not ...(something)..., which it is. I assume I can do some config work within the window manager's environment, but how would you config the WM outside that environment? The only tip I got from the man pages was "you can configure ... inside the window manager...". I also tried letting the WM set the mouse config, and all it did was change the /dev/ file in such a way that the symlink file pointing to it broke (and it was /dev/adbmouse, BTW, just re-named to "|gpmdata"). Oh and how does one launch GNOME? Do you have to have an X server already running? I try launching "gnome-session" and all it does is "... ERROR 111 CANNOT CONNECT TO HOST ...". Sorry for all the dumb newbie questions. eric
