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I have the same problem.

Gary James wrote:

> I have a similar question along these lines. I figured out how to do
> the "gpm -R" trick to get the mouse working. But that causes real big
> problems for X windows on my machine. If I start up gpm with the -R
> option upon bootup, it seems that my mouse doesn't work at all in X.
> If I restart gpm after X is running everything is fine until after I
> run my SVGA microwindows application in virtual terminal 1. AFter I
> quit the microwindows application and go back to virtual terminal 7
> the mouse in X gets very confused. It's very hyperactive for a few
> minutes then both the mouse and keyboard hang on me.
>
> Does anybody have any secrets to getting "gpm -R" working nicely with
> X.
>
> thanks
> gary
>
> Ritesh Saigal wrote:
> >
> > Hi Guys,
> >
> > Thanks. The problem was that I was not running gpm.
> > gpm -t ps2 -R msc
> >
> > Ritesh.
> >
> > "Thomas Höhenleitner" wrote:
> >
> > > Am Mon, 11 Sep 2000 schrieb Ritesh Saigal:
> > > > Hi Guys,
> > > >
> > > > I am having trouble configuring my mouse to work with an application.
> > > > When I run a simple demo application in which I create a window, a mouse
> > > > is drawn in the center of the screen and I have no control over it. What
> > > > do I have to do to enable the mouse.
> > > >
> > > > Please help me with that...
> > > >
> > > > Best Regds,
> > > >
> > > > Ritesh.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > Did start the mouse driver in repeater mode?
> > > (i.e.:  gpm -R -t ps2)
> > >
> > > May be I am wrong, but I guess microwin is using /dev/mouse for getting mouse
> > > data. If gpm is not running in repeater mode there are no data in /dev/mouse.
> > >
> > > Thomas
> > >
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