> On the machine that I am typing this message on it seems I can have > gpm and X co-exist quite peacefully, but I still set up X to read of > /dev/gpmdata (I installed woody on this home made machine last week, > so I figured I'd do it "right," whatever that means). > > However, on a laptop I have (a Compaq Armada M300) I can't seem to get > gpm and X to share the built in PS/2 mouse, so I simply turned off GPM > in the X run levels I invented (though I could have gpm do the repeat > thing to /dev/gpmdata, frankly though, I never miss gpm).
Make sure that when you run the gpm-config script that you specify the repeat type to 'raw', then you can edit XF86Config to read from the mouse device /dev/ gpmdata with a PS/2 protocol. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen W. Juranich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Electrical Engineering http://students.washington.edu/sjuranic University of Washington http://ssli.ee.washington.edu/ssli /"\ || \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN || NO ATTACHMENTS X AGAINST HTML MAIL || NO STATIONERY / \ AND POSTINGS || NO GRAPHICS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
