Re: [TCLUG:22015] Dead Mouse

[jack@jacku.com]

Absolutely correct. I meant gpm. I just had a brain-fart while typing. 

On Tue, 03 October 2000, ^chewie wrote:

> 
> On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 12:51:31PM -0700, jack@jacku.com wrote:
> > One situation I used to run into with older versions of Slack was if
> > gsm was running for console mouse support it screwed up the mouse in
> > X. From a console prompt issue:
> > 
> > ps ax | grep gsm
> > 
> > If you see a gsm running, kill the process and see if your mouse
> > comes back.
> 
> Are you referring to General Purpose Mouse (gpm)?  Or, perhaps gsm
> became gpm?  Currently, the program I believe you are referring to is
> indeed gpm, and you are correct; there are conflict problems between
> gpm and X.  You can defer mouse control entirely to gpm and then
> repeat the data through the /dev/gpmdata device for X.  Read into the
> gpm documentation for more details
> 
> -- 
>   Chad "^chewie, gunnarr" Walstrom <chewie@wookimus.net>
>               http://wookimus.net/chewie