Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 May 1999 21:20:14 +0200 | From | Andreas Bombe <> | Subject | Re: Mouse and keyboard drivers in the Linux Kernel? |
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On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 04:37:35PM +0100, DAVID BALAZIC wrote: > Martin Mares (mj@ucw.cz) wrote : > > > Without gpm -R the mouse simply cannot be shared between two programs. > > Since most users use both gpm on the console and X for graphics, the repeater > > mode is the only chance they have to get it working :-) > > Not true. I run gpm w/o the -R switch on two machines and on both > X11 and SVGAlib programs can access the mouse. > One machine has a serial mouse and the other a PS/2 mouse ( aux ).
It works, but very probably not reliably. I had it that way here before I found out about the -R switch (using PS/2 mouse). It works, but sometimes X terminates when switching from text console to X because it cannot reacquire the mouse fast enough.
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