David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 13/06/2000 (18:33) : > > Here's what caught me out if you're coming from slink to potato. > > The old gpm had a -R option which repeated the mouse to > /dev/gpmdata with the "MouseSystems" protocol, i.e. > > Section "Pointer" > Protocol "MouseSystems" > Device "/dev/gpmdata" > > The new one has -Rprotocol but defaults to -Rms3 when you install it. > You need to change it to -Rmsc to make it work with a preexisting > XF86Config such as above. > > When you make this change with gpmconfig, it will tell you that it > started the gpm server. It doesn't though, because there's already > one running. You have to do it yourself. Check with ps wax.
It shouldn't be necessary to do all this for gpm to work properly. I didn't have to any of this under RedHat. And I don't have a odd non standard mouse. I think this ought to be looked at before potato is released. Is this problem registered anywhere or do one have to file a bug report? I'm new to Debian so I don't know. -- Preben Randhol -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- <http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/> "Det eneste trygge stedet i verden er inne i en fortelling." -- Athol Fugard
