On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 01:19:51PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: > I've tried to tell X to use the fifo /dev/gpmdata as its > pointing device but it doesn't work. The mouse behaves fine > under gpm (even cut&paste works) but is unuseable under X. The > mouse cursor does move when I move the mouse, but in > completely erratic and unpredictable ways. The only way I've > got the mouse to work under X is to not use the gpm fifo, and > to stop gpm before starting X. My mouse is a Logitech 3-button > PS/2 type. -chris
My mouse is not the same kind as yours, but to get this to work for me, I needed to put the -R option at the beginning of the append line in /etc/gpm.conf like so: append="-R -l \"a-zA-Z0-9_.:~/\300-\326\330-\366\370-\377\"" X has happily used /dev/gpmdata ever since--with no need to stop gpm before starting X. HTH, James
