[CLUE-Tech] Mousing Around: gpm trouble, swap?

[David Anselmi]

"Jed S. Baer" wrote:

> Problem is, now, when I exit X, or switch to a different (non X) console,
> gpm is wildly confused. It's as if having run X, the mouse signals are
> madly scrambled for the console. The pointer doesn't move, and moving the
> mouse results in erratic button-click events. Doing a gpm restart doesn't
> clear it up. So, after googling for a while without finding anything, does
> anyone have any idea why this would be happening?

Well, I have heard of this.  One distro I used (LFS) didn't have any problem
but I didn't go out of my way to make it work right.

IIRC the 'fix' is to stop gpm, start X, stop X, start gpm.  Something about
the drivers not playing nice with each other.

Dave