Samantha Samuel on Fri, 22 Feb 2002 22:36:47 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] frozen mouse


Sorry bout prev post.

Thx Bill. :)


On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Bill Jonas wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 06:07:32PM -0500, Paul wrote:
> > I think gpm is only used in a text console.
>
> If you have problems running X while gpm is running (some hardware
> doesn't like it if you have the mouse device open multiple times) but
> still want to run gpm and X at the same time, you can set up gpm to
> repeat the mouse movements to /dev/gpmdata and tell X to use that device
> instead of your normal mouse device.
>
>

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Samantha
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