Salut Patrice, I think the problem has to do with the device you are using. As far as I know, the cuax-devices can normally be used by one process only at a given time. E. g. if gpm uses device /dev/cua0, as in your case, and then the X-Server is started it can't use the mouse because device /dev/cua0 is locked by gpm. The solution is to use /dev/ttyS0 instead of /dev/cua0 because the ttySx devices can be shared between processes. By the way, I think that Debian is shipped with a symbolic link /dev/modem that you set during the installation procedure. Programs which use the mouse like gpm or the X-server use this symbolic link as mouse device by default. So, the right way in terms of Debian policy is probably to change/create a link /dev/mouse -> /dev/ttyS0 and to make programs use this link as their mouse device (someone correct me if I'm wrong).
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