Tom, This did work. I had to go into the man page a couple of dozen times, but works great now. I needed to change the repeater protocol to 'raw'. Joe --- jtannenba wrote: > 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 > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml > if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and > you use Netscape to write mail. > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - > PLUG-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss ===== JT and NE Tannenbaum jtannenba@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com