Re: gpm and X mouse conflicts

1996-08-07 Thread Mark Eichin
> without the "-R" option. However, "-R" does seem to be needed for bus > mice and in some cases it seems to be needed even for serial mice. I It *used* to be needed for busmice and in particular ps2 mice. However, many of the busmouse drivers (and definitely the ps2 mouse driver) were fixed to

Re: gpm and X mouse conflicts

1996-08-06 Thread David M. Cooke
Dale Scheetz wrote: > > On Mon, 5 Aug 1996, Mark Phillips wrote: > > > But my mouse is a normal, MouseSystems compatible, serial mouse. > > Surely I shouldn't have to use the -R option? I didn't have to under > > slackware. > > > I suspect that slackware runs the daemon with the -R option and se

Re: gpm and X mouse conflicts

1996-08-06 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Mon, 5 Aug 1996, Mark Phillips wrote: > >> When I try to run startx, it dies complaining that: > >> > >> Fatal server error: > >> Cannot open mouse (Device or resource busy) > >> > >> I then kill gpm and startx works fine. How can I get both to work > >> together? I could do this under slac

Re: gpm and X mouse conflicts

1996-08-05 Thread Mark Phillips
>> When I try to run startx, it dies complaining that: >> >> Fatal server error: >> Cannot open mouse (Device or resource busy) >> >> I then kill gpm and startx works fine. How can I get both to work >> together? I could do this under slackware. >> >Read the man page for gpm. I think you want