On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 11:02:07AM -0500, Bolan Meek wrote: > Ethan Pierce wrote: > > > > There was some talk on the list earlier today about removing gpm to get > > better results with the paste feature. > > > > I plan to try this later when I get home from work....but does anyone know > > if taking out gpm will mess up the x server? > > Taking out gpm will not mess up the x server, however, if X is > configured to get data from /dev/gpmdata, it will not know from > where to get the mouse movements & buttons. You may want to > check into that.
You've got an Intellimouse? Try this in your /etc/X11/XF86Config:
Section "Pointer"
Protocol "IMPS/2"
Device "/dev/psaux"
Resolution 100
Buttons 3
ZAxisMapping 4 5
EndSection
Remove gpm. It's never caused me anything but grief when trying to
run X. For console only machines gpm is cool.
HTH,
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