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 <
jtannenba@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Thx.
> Joe
> --- Thomas Mondoshawan Tate <phoenix@psy.ed.asu.edu>
> 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
> > <repeater type>). This will
> > cause GPM to open the /dev/<mouse_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/<mouse_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
>
>
>
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