On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, John Foster wrote: > There was recently released a new version of gpm into Debian 2,2r2. If > you have since upgraded and since you use a ps2 mouse; the new version > will NOT work. You will need to dl the sources for gpm and recompile it > on your system in order for it to work. I had to do that also. This is a > known bug. See mail archives from last month for more details.
I'm not sure, but I think you might be mistaken. As I recall, there is no real problem with the gpm in potato, but just that it's default configuration has changed. Take a look at /etc/gpm.conf (which is read by /etc/init.d/gpm when it starts gpm). If you find a line that starts with "repeat_type=", delete whatever comes after the equals sign, and the script will stop using the "-R" option on gpm. I found that when gpm stopped trying to act as a repeater in graphics mode, X was able to access /dev/psaux directly. Maybe I was just lucky, or maybe I'm not using the same version of gpm (I'm using 1.17.8-18), but that was my experience. Hope it helps. -- David Steinberg -o) Computer Engineering Undergrad, UBC / \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] _\_v
