Re: [LI] Debian X & gpm...

[Raghavendra Bhat <ragu@xxxxxxxx>]

Deivanayak T Balakrishnan is puzzled:

> I got it running but my gpm is gone when i run X.
> I tried reconfiguring gpm using gpmconfig - but without
> success and my X is gone as it looks for gpm before loading and gpm is not
> available.
> 

Can U tell us more about the make of UR mouse and the port type ?
Stop the gpm daemon by issuing '/etc/init.d/gpm stop'.
Configure UR X using 'XF86Setup/xf86config' only after this.
The mouse will get probed by 'XF86Setup'.  U can edit the
gpm.conf file in /etc before U do a 'startx'.



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