On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 12:35:57PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > On Sun 25 Feb 01, 9:20 PM, Carel Fellinger said: > > > > <rant> > > And that's why so many have problems with it, they refuse to RTFM! > > There is no need whatsoever to have any problems with GPM and X, > > just follow the examples and try to read the manpage for a change. > > <\rant> > > i think we all know the saying "man pages are great for reference, but > sometimes suck to learn from". > > try to re-read the man page for gpm with the mindset of someone who doesn't > know what gpmdata is or what "repeating" means. if you can do this > honestly, i'll bet you'll find that the information is there, but requires a > definite leap of intuition. the man page definitely makes the possibility > of conflict known. it just isn't supremely clear about how to resolve the > problem.
I know, and in the past I've shown that I'm more then willing to help out, but if somewone comes in telling he has no man or info pages installed I some times get just a little pissed off:) But nonetheless I think I explained it all, didn't I? (But I appolojize (shees, cant type it:) for the outburst. Must be a louse day, I freigtend me elder kids too) > perhaps the answer is to make "repeat_type=raw" in the default gpm.conf, and > to use type=protocol to specify the mouse protocol in XF86Config-4. Ah, that's right, I'm still using X-3 on this machine. > if you can configure your consol mouse during installation, it seems to me > that this would guarentee no problems with the mouse during X. Yep, but use /dev/mouse linked to /dev/gpmdata even in the early stages of X configuration. Saves a lot of headaches later on:) -- groetjes, carel
