On Tuesday, August 15, 2000, Perry Hoekstra <dutchman at uswest.net> wrote: > > Jim Crumley wrote: > > > > On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 04:31:15AM -0500, Perry Hoekstra wrote: > > > > > > I seem to have somehow horked up my mouse. If I used /dev/psaux in > > > XF86Config, the mouse pointer just sits there, no movement. If I use > > > /dev/mouse, then the mouse flies around almost at random. > > > > > > I did a ps-ef and saw /usr/sbin/gpm -m /dev/psaux -t ps2 -Rms3 > > > > > > So I know the mouse interface manager is up. How would I know if I have > > > started a process that is interfering with gpm? > > > > You might want to uninstall gpm (dpkg -r gpm). You are supposed > > to be able to run gpm and X with your mouse at the same time, but > > I've had problems with it before. And if you don't use your > > mouse in virtual consoles (I don't), then you don't need gpm. > > That did it, I am back in business. I thank you sir! I just stumbled on this problem too, over the weekend. Rather than uninstalling gpm (which had some other dependencies IIRC), you can do update-rc.d -f gpm remove This will remove all the gpm links from /etc/rc.d*. The -f allows you to do it without deleting your /etc/init.d/gpm script, in case you ever want to restart gpm by hand. You can restore the rc.d links later with update-rc.d gpm defaults Cheers, John -- dusk at ravendusk.org http://www.gnome.org jsheets at codeweavers.com http://www.worldforge.org http://advogato.org/person/jsheets --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org