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Re: 1. Where is xpmroot? 2. gpm and XFree86 problem

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From: Greg Sawicki
Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 00:00
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Yakko J. Warner wrote:

> >As far as I know you should disable gpm when running X
> 
> actually, in my experience, if you have a PS/2-type mouse, you _have_ to
> disable gpm.. gpm works fine in conjunction with X on my home system, which
> has serial mouse in MS mode.

I had to do it too.

This past weekend I upgraded my kernel to pre2.0.5 along with almost everything else.
I upgraded to gpm-1.09 and Xfree86-3.1.2E.

gpm/X problem is gone, my mouse is free :)

I was to lazy to establish which upgrade actually fixed it.

Greg Sawicki
sawicki@io.org
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From: Greg Sawicki <sawicki@io.org>
Subject: Re: 1. Where is xpmroot?  2. gpm and XFree86 problem
Date: 1996/05/20
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