On 00:55 Fri 17 Oct , Abilio Carvalho wrote: > 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. >
OK, found out what was wrong. What was missing from your email in reply to this one was that I had to start gpmwith -Rraw for it to work. Now it's fine, thanks Abilio -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
