On 18:33 Thu 16 Oct     , Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 18:20, Abilio Carvalho wrote:
> > Hey all. I'm just now finishing setting up my Gentoo machine at work, and i have 
> > several problems. I'm gonna compile them later, but here's one of the most 
> > baffling. I ask because a search of the forums couldn't yield any help.
> > 
> > I emerged gpm, made it run with my imps2 mouse on /dev/misc/psaux, and added it to 
> > the rc-scripts. No problem. Then, when I finished emerging X and Gnome and 
> > configuring everything, I realized that after I started X with startx and shut it 
> > down again, GPM would stop working, because it couldn't open the mouse. Sometimes 
> > doing cat /dev/misc/psaux, moving the mouse around, and ctrlCing I could start gpm 
> > again.
> > 
> > Any ideas on what might be happening? 
> 
> Might want to set gpm to run against /dev/gpm or whatever the device
> is...

Thanks, but the only thing on /dev which sounds even close is /dev/gpmctl, but I can't 
open it with gpm.



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