On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 05:55:02PM -0800, Nate Amsden wrote: > gpm is for console mouse support. running it without having it > properly configured can cause a communications conflict as > either X or gpm can have control of the mouse, but not both. > if gpm is configured right(i don't know how, i've never tried > it myself) then you should be able to use it in both > enviornments.
Sometimes gpm and X11 can coexist, both using the mouse directly. This does not work with some hardware. The workaround is to configure XFree86 to use /dev/gpmdata as the mouse device and BusMouse as the mouse protocol. This means that X11 gets its mouse data from gpm. -- Henry House OpenPGP key available from http://hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc
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