On Sun, 23 Mar 1997, Curtis L. Daugaard wrote: > Before I changed to Debian, I could swear that under Slackware I was > able to use my MS serial mouse in X-Windows without first killing gpm. > No more. X refuses to start, complaining "device in use." > > I've tried everything I can think of based on the documentation for gpm, > including invoking the -M option and pointing the XF86Config file > to /dev/gpmdata. > > My current serial settings: gpm set to /dev/cua2 and XF86Config to > /dev/ttyS2. > > Can anybody tell me the secret?
While I'm not 100% sure that this will end your problems, I am 100% sure that the first thing to try is pointing gpm to /dev/ttyS2. The ttySX's handle some things (like device locking) differently than the /dev/cuaX's. Certainly, you should use the same name for you mouse dev in both cases. Syrus. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Syrus Nemat-Nasser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> UCSD Physics Dept.
