Re: [BRLTTY] GPM open error: Inappropriate ioctl for device

2007-08-22 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Dave Mielke wrote: > [quoted lines by Nicolas Pitre on 2007/08/22 at 17:46 -0400] > > >It is better. But if you happen to turn "Window Follows Pointer" on > >and back off then the message flood starts again. > > Thanks. Please retest. Goody! Looks fine now. Nicolas

Re: [BRLTTY] GPM open error: Inappropriate ioctl for device

2007-08-22 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Nicolas Pitre on 2007/08/22 at 17:46 -0400] >It is better. But if you happen to turn "Window Follows Pointer" on >and back off then the message flood starts again. Thanks. Please retest. -- Dave Mielke | 2213 Fox Crescent | I believe that the Bible is the Phone: 1-6

Re: [BRLTTY] GPM open error: Inappropriate ioctl for device

2007-08-22 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Dave Mielke wrote: > [quoted lines by Nicolas Pitre on 2007/08/22 at 11:40 -0400] > > >Also, I have "Window Follows Pointer" and "Highlight Window" set to > >"no", so in theory BRLTTY should not even try to open any GPM device, > >right? > > Please retest with the latest r

Re: [BRLTTY] GPM open error: Inappropriate ioctl for device

2007-08-22 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Nicolas Pitre on 2007/08/22 at 11:40 -0400] >Also, I have "Window Follows Pointer" and "Highlight Window" set to >"no", so in theory BRLTTY should not even try to open any GPM device, >right? Please retest with the latest revision. -- Dave Mielke | 2213 Fox Crescent

Re: [BRLTTY] GPM open error: Inappropriate ioctl for device

2007-08-22 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Dave Mielke wrote: > [quoted lines by Nicolas Pitre on 2007/08/22 at 11:36 -0400] > > >Currently I get lots of: > > > >Aug 22 10:35:49 xanadu brltty[27884]: GPM open error: No such file or > >directory > >Aug 22 10:36:24 xanadu last message repeated 7 times > >Aug 22 10:37:2

Re: [BRLTTY] GPM open error: Inappropriate ioctl for device

2007-08-22 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Nicolas Pitre on 2007/08/22 at 11:36 -0400] >Currently I get lots of: > >Aug 22 10:35:49 xanadu brltty[27884]: GPM open error: No such file or directory >Aug 22 10:36:24 xanadu last message repeated 7 times >Aug 22 10:37:29 xanadu last message repeated 13 times >Aug 22 10:38:34 xa

Re: [BRLTTY] GPM open error: Inappropriate ioctl for device

2007-08-22 Thread Keith Wessel
mal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY. Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] GPM open error: Inappropriate ioctl for device [quoted lines by Keith Wessel on 2007/08/22 at 10:05 -0500] >GPM isn't writing anything to syslog when I start it (/etc/init.d/gpm >start... and now added to my

Re: [BRLTTY] GPM open error: Inappropriate ioctl for device

2007-08-22 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > BTW I have those annoying messages about GPM in my syslog too, and have > had them for a long time. I just never could be bothered to find and > fix the source of them. And I'm running the very latest BRLTTY version > at the moment. > > Currently I

Re: [BRLTTY] GPM open error: Inappropriate ioctl for device

2007-08-22 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Dave Mielke wrote: > [quoted lines by Keith Wessel on 2007/08/22 at 10:05 -0500] > > >GPM isn't writing anything to syslog when I start it (/etc/init.d/gpm > >start... and now added to my default runlevel for automatic start-up at > >boot). But I do see it in the process tabl

Re: [BRLTTY] GPM open error: Inappropriate ioctl for device

2007-08-22 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Keith Wessel on 2007/08/22 at 10:05 -0500] >GPM isn't writing anything to syslog when I start it (/etc/init.d/gpm >start... and now added to my default runlevel for automatic start-up at >boot). But I do see it in the process table, so it is, in fact, running, or >at least faking

Re: [BRLTTY] GPM open error: Inappropriate ioctl for device

2007-08-22 Thread Keith Wessel
ED] Behalf Of Dave Mielke Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 9:25 AM To: Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY. Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] GPM open error: Inappropriate ioctl for device [quoted lines by Keith Wessel on 2007/08/22 at 09:14 -0500] >I started gpm, but no luck wi

Re: [BRLTTY] GPM open error: Inappropriate ioctl for device

2007-08-22 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Keith Wessel on 2007/08/22 at 09:14 -0500] >I started gpm, but no luck with the log messages going away. I restarted >brltty to see if that made a difference, and no dice there, either. Still >getting the log messages every five seconds or so in /var/log/messages. That's very odd

Re: [BRLTTY] GPM open error: Inappropriate ioctl for device

2007-08-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Keith Wessel, le Wed 22 Aug 2007 09:14:30 -0500, a écrit : > So, am I just waiting for another release of gpm? Looks like Gentoo stable's > currently on 1.20.1-r5 The bug appeared as soon as 1.20. It got fixed in 1.20.2. Samuel ___ This message was sent

Re: [BRLTTY] GPM open error: Inappropriate ioctl for device

2007-08-22 Thread Keith Wessel
ssion between users and developers of BRLTTY. Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] GPM open error: Inappropriate ioctl for device [quoted lines by Keith Wessel on 2007/08/22 at 08:55 -0500] >Thanks. I'll just put up with the noise in syslog then until I see a new GPM >release come out. The noise goes awa

Re: [BRLTTY] GPM open error: Inappropriate ioctl for device

2007-08-22 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Keith Wessel on 2007/08/22 at 08:55 -0500] >Thanks. I'll just put up with the noise in syslog then until I see a new GPM >release come out. The noise goes away if you install and start gpm. Another thing that should work is to go into brltty's preferences menu and turn off "Windo

Re: [BRLTTY] GPM open error: Inappropriate ioctl for device

2007-08-22 Thread Keith Wessel
ormal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY. Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] GPM open error: Inappropriate ioctl for device Hi, Keith Wessel, le Tue 21 Aug 2007 20:46:58 -0500, a écrit : > Aug 21 20:33:38 [hostname] brltty[921]: GPM open error: Inappropriate ioctl > for device >

Re: [BRLTTY] GPM open error: Inappropriate ioctl for device

2007-08-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Keith Wessel, le Tue 21 Aug 2007 20:46:58 -0500, a écrit : > Aug 21 20:33:38 [hostname] brltty[921]: GPM open error: Inappropriate ioctl > for device > > The problem definitely appears to be coming from brltty, not from > gpm. This is really a bug of gpm, which dropped support for default mo

[BRLTTY] GPM open error: Inappropriate ioctl for device

2007-08-21 Thread Keith Wessel
Hi, all, I've seen posts to this list about this problem before, but they don't seem to point to my problem. I'm running a Gentoo system, and it thus has the current stable ebuild of brltty which at this time is version 3.8. After installing an X server and Gnome, the following line appears in sy