Re: (mouse makes) Keyboard lockup

[Martin Minich <minich5@example.com>]

On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Christopher SEKIYA wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 12:58:42PM +0200, Martin Minich wrote:
>
> > one more thing to add: it was not only gpm, that caused the problem;
> > also running X led to the keyboard lockup; but running X without a mouse
> > (ie cheating in XF86Config about the device, not to be able to use
> > the mouse at all) didn't led to it;
>
> Did you set the mouse device in XF86Config to /dev/gpmdata?  If you're
>

no, i didn't; it was /dev/psaux, as i had already removed gpm
(as it had behaved evily itself (even without X too))

martin

> gpm is evil, though, and if you're using the machine primarily as an X
> server it's not a good idea to run it at all.
>