Re: Problems with touch pad in X

George Silberstern <[email protected]> Tue, 26 Aug 2003 17:39:30 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.linux.hardware.sony
Message-ID <[email protected]>
At 02:33 PM 8/26/2003 +0000, you wrote:
>Are you running gpm per chance? (mouse server for virtual terminals) Mouse 
>work in the console?
>
>X doesn't play well (by default) with gpm running.
>
>kill any gpm processes and try starting Xwindows again. If you require the 
>mouse in console mode you might want to resort to something similar to my 
>setup.

Easier still:

If it is being loaded for all runlevels, change it so that gpm only starts 
in the non-gui runlevels.



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