Re: gpm locks out console keyboard

2000-10-01 Thread W. Paul Mills
Not sure. I know that some hardware with ps2 mouse, lockup the mouse, and you also lockup the keyboard. I learned this the hard way -- one keyboard, one mouse on two computers! Dale Amon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : Does anyone know why gpm would completely hang : console logins on a machine? I

Re: gpm locks out console keyboard

2000-10-01 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I had few lockups and hard crashes with gpm previously. 1. conflict with PCMCIA on Toshiba notebook (2.2 kernel) --> Solution: changed sequence of of daemon in rc?.d/. (I think gpm -> PCMCIA was good, but I forgot) Also inserting BASH script with readline between these daemon initi

gpm locks out console keyboard

2000-10-01 Thread Dale Amon
Does anyone know why gpm would completely hang console logins on a machine? I can still login remotely, and if I kill gpm I can then get a console. This would seem to be very bad behavior on gpm's part. It first happened after a dselect update on the woody dist back in August. I've been doing upd