On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 10:51:15AM -0400, William Bradley wrote: > On Tuesday 26 August 2003 02:58 am, Kent West wrote: > > > Whoo-hoo! > > .... bit premature it seems. (Sigh!) > > > Okay, make sure that gpm is configured to repeat "raw" (either edit > > /etc/gpm.conf, or better, re-run gpmconfig). > > When I set up "gpmconfig" with "fuimps" the mouse moves when I test it. When I > get out of "gpmconfig" it still works. > > However when I "shutdown -r now" when it reboots the mouse is dead again. > Thinking the gpm server is not working,
In this apparently dead state, what does 'ps ax | grep gpm' report? > I entered "#gpm" but that did not change anything. No, I don't think it will - see (a) below > Then I go back to "gpmconfig" and get it going again. Sometimes it doesn't > take on the first configuration and has to be done again and then it will > work. Is it actually configured to start gpm on boot? gpmconfig defaults to (re)starting gpm when you run it, but it won't configure gpm to start on boot. a) Does '/etc/init.d/gpm start' (instead of running gpmconfig again) get it going? b) Does 'ls -l /etc/rc?.d/*gpm*' show anything? If (a) is 'yes' and (b) is 'no', the solution is to install a link to start gpm on boot: ln -s /etc/init.d/gpm /etc/rc2.d/S20gpm (there's also a 'Debian way' to do this which I don't know, never having used it :-) ) (It would be nice if gpmconfig offered the option to install/remove this link.) -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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