[plug] woody

Brad Campbell brad at seme.com.au
Wed Dec 19 13:24:11 WST 2001


craig at postnewspapers.com.au wrote:
> 
> > Is there a way to stay at woody, but go back to xfree86 v3.x?
> > My ps/2 mouse is possessed.
> Before you downgrade, try executing /etc/init.d/gpm stop as root, then
> restarting X (control-alt-backspace kills the Xserver ungracefully, but
> makes darn sure its restarted).
> 
> 9 out of 10 the problem will be gone. gpm provides vt mouse services, so
> if you don't use it (say, you use xterms all the time, or, like me,
> don't use the mouse on the vt console screens) just dpkg --purge gpm and
> it'll be dealt with.

Or you could do what I do and run X off the gpm repeater output.
I use gpm in consoles all the time so I need it running, I just set up
the gpm repeat option on have X look at that for its mouse data.

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