Chris Cheney wrote: > > I noticed that if you select /dev/gpmdata as your mouse device it still > includes the detected mouse device (eg /dev/input/mice) this causes a > problem usually if you are using gpm since gpm and X fight for the main > device.
Not for /dev/input/mice, it can be opened and read by any number of processes without problems. In fact, you don't need the GPM repeater with it in the first place. > Also it might be good to set the device type of gpmdata to ImPS/2 > instead of Intellimouse since that is the type that is emulated by > /dev/input/mice. The protocol emitted by the GPM repeater depends on GPM configuration only. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer CS student, Free Software enthusiast \ XFree86 and DRI project member
