As the gpm maintainer I will try and stay polite and explain some things. <snip> On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 07:46:51PM +0200, Massimo Dal Zotto wrote: > I had the same problems when using the new defaults (-R ms3 and > Intellimouse on /dev/gpmdata). Can you please give specifics? > > Another nasty thing is that if you use the task-selection interface gpm > is not installed by default and there is no way to add it manually to the > package list. Eww, I will have to get that corrected. <snip> Repeating in /ANY/ protocol except ms3/IntelliMouse is NOT an option, it will not work with X4, the ONLY protocol which will work for gpm repeating to X4 is ms3/IntelliMouse. Raw is just screaming loudly for it to break, msc no longer works and does not support the features of newer mice, there is exactly one option, ms3/IntelliMouse. Further having X and gpm try to coexist without repeating is also a non-option, on some systems it breaks badly. Thus, we have three possible choices. 1: gpm installed without X, no problems. 2: X installed without gpm, no mouse under console, but otherwise no problems. 3: gpm and X installed with gpm repeating to X in the ms3/IntelliMouse protocol. There are no other options, these are the only configurations which will work on all systems. Zephaniah E. Hull. (gpm maintainer) > > -- > Massimo Dal Zotto > > +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ > | Massimo Dal Zotto email: dz@cs.unitn.it | > | Via Marconi, 141 phone: ++39-0461534251 | > | 38057 Pergine Valsugana (TN) www: http://www.cs.unitn.it/~dz/ | > | Italy pgp: see my www home page | > +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ > -- PGP EA5198D1-Zephaniah E. Hull <warp@whitestar.soark.net>-GPG E65A7801 Keys available at http://whitestar.soark.net/~warp/public_keys. CCs of replies from mailing lists are encouraged. ALL programs are poems, it's just that not all programmers are poets. -- Jonathan Guthrie in the scary.devil.monastery
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