> On Sun, 9 Aug 1998, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 9 Aug 1998, Szabolcs Ban wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I always get error messages, when I switch between X and console.
> > > gpm says cua0 is not a good choice to my mouse :]]
> > > If I believe at that message, the ttyS0 said me it was buzy by the gpm, so I
> > > couldn't start X.
> > > Solution?
> > >
> > Edit /etc/inittab so it is not trying to use ttyS0 for a 'getty'. Then
> > you should be able to use ttyS0 for your serial mouse. Unless you remember
> > the magic signal to send init (I don't), you will have to re-boot.
> >
> >
> I haven't tried this recently, but when I tried moving /dev/mouse to point
> to /dev/ttyS0 instead of /dev/cua0 it completely broke gpm. ttyS0 is
> definately not in use by anything else.
>
My serial mouse is on /dev/ttyS1, but it should make no difference.....
Script started on Tue Aug 11 13:54:09 1998
# file /dev/mouse
/dev/mouse: symbolic link to /dev/ttyS1
# gpm
gpm-Linux is already running as pid 325
# exit
exit
Script done on Tue Aug 11 13:54:44 1998
You may have an old gpm that doesn't open the device properly.
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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