Do you really have to quit X? As of a couple years ago, I used to use gpm
in pass-through mode for X and was able to kill and restart gpm without
disturbing the X server. Granted I only restarted using the same mouse
source(for some reason the mouse used to lock up) but I don't see why it
shouldn't work with a different mouse.
Eric Lemar
On Mon, 1 May 2000, Lars Kellogg-Stedman wrote:
> > Yes, just point gpm or X or both to /dev/input/mice, char 13:63.
>
> I think you missed a crucial point in my post -- neither X nor gpm can
> deal with the fact that the mouse device disappears when the USB mouse is
> unplugged (or, equivalently, if the notebook goes through a suspend/resume
> cycle).
>
> The only solution to this right now is to:
>
> * quit X
> * quit gpm
> * unload the mouse driver
> * reload the mouse driver
>
> (You can't unload mousedev until gpm exits, because gpm keeps
> /dev/usb/usbmouse0 open.)
>
> The folks on the linux-usb list have suggested that the bulk of the
> problem lies with the individual applications, with only minor changes
> necessary to the USB drivers.
>
> However, until this work is done it does not appear to be possible to
> hotplug usb mouse devices and have things work as expected.
>
> -- Lars
>
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>
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