Mr Albert , sorry about the mistake. I do appreciate you help. I looked at the gpm info last night. I didn't see much. Anyway thanks for you help. I'll keep trying and get this yes. John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Albert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "hammack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 12:40 PM Subject: Re: Still No Cursor in X
> On Mit, 31 Jan 2001, you wrote: > > Albert, I tried the configuration you suggested. I got a cursor in the > > Please let me introduce myself as a man of wealth & taste and the name > is martin 8-) > > > text mode but not in X. I was able to lite up menus. > In X? Did you already try to find out about your X-server options? You > did again not tell what server & window-manager you are using > > > After the "ls -al /dev/gpm* I only got the one line regarding gpmdata as > > .. > > What does it mean that the gpmctl entry is not there. > > This is a good question indeed. It took me nearly half an hour now to > find out and i'm still not quite sure. > > This device entry 'named socket' is created when gpm is started, for > instance on system start or when you manually run '/etc/init.d/gpm > restart'. > > When this does not happen on your system, sth. is strange. As i didn't > work with named sockets yet, i could only make wild guesses. > It might be that your gpm is simply too old. Check the version with > 'gpm -v'. I've got 1.17.8 and it works fine. > You've got networking in your kernel (this is silly, nearly impossible > you haven't). > Do you run a debian system at all? > > Anyway this is strange. What kind of a system are you runnign there? > If you can, try reinstalling gpm. > Post where you've got your packages from, ideally the versions of gpm > and X-server, it's name and the gfx card. > > > Thanks John [EMAIL PROTECTED] > you're welcome > > greetings, martin > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
