On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 10:45:46PM -0700, David wrote: > If problems persist, you may want to consider dumping gpm all together. It > was giving me problems once upon a time, and I've never missed it any time > I've removed it. It doesn't seem to provide much functionality beyond the > ability to use your mouse in console mode, which seemed fairly worthless to > me. Someone can probably tell you a much better use for the thing, but it > never did much for my comp.
Well, that alone seems pretty valuable to me! But then, I've got a frame buffer console with pretty nice resolution, and it's so nice to be able to copy between one virtual console and the other. I could live without X pretty easily, with gpm... just my $.02. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
