Re: Mouse and keyboard drivers in the Linux Kernel?

Andreas Bombe (andreas.bombe@munich.netsurf.de)
Thu, 27 May 1999 21:20:14 +0200

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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