Thx. Joe --- Thomas Mondoshawan Tate wrote: > On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 07:47:44AM -0800, jtannenba > wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I recently tried Mandrake 8.1 (been using RH 6.1). > > Twas not a great exprience. Main problem: could > not > > get a mouse cursor in X. > > > > Reloaded with Deb 2.2r4 and X works fine unless > > I had gpm running prior to calling X. Then the > > mouse cursor is there but won't work. Killing > > gpm makes it start working. > > > > I didn't have to do this with RH 6.1, so my > question > > is how did RH handle it so it worked in X? > > Simple: start GPM with the repeater flag (-R > ). This will > cause GPM to open the /dev/ device for > reading, interpret the > commands as it normally would, but also repeat the > commands verbatim to > /dev/gpmdata. > > The reason why X didn't work while GPM was running > prior to starting X was > because GPM opened the /dev/ device > first. Under Linux, only the > first program that opens a device for reading and/or > writing gets the > privelege of reading and/or writing to it. > > Have a look at the gpm(8) manpage for more > information. > > -- > Thomas "Mondoshawan" Tate > phoenix@psy.ed.asu.edu > http://tank.dyndns.org > > ATTACHMENT part 2 application/pgp-signature ===== JT and NE Tannenbaum jtannenba@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com