gpm and console mouse services
Ben Stringer
ben at burbong.com
Thu Mar 4 09:01:39 UTC 2004
On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 18:18, Merrill Jr. Butterman wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> Boy, you guys should be charging me by the hour for
> this he he he. Ben, I looked at services and I got the
> message of"gpm dead but pid file exsist" on shutdown I
> notice that "mouse console services failed in
> shutdown" However when I restarted gpm it started
> sucessfully. any connection? my only option I think is
> to see why console mouse services has failed and go
> from there. thanks again for all your help but
> suggestions at this point are welcomed.
Not too sure with gpm. Are you running a laptop with multiple mouse
devices (Eg. trackpad and external mouse), or do you use a bus mouse?
If you are unlikely to use the mouse in text mode (I never do), you can
just disable the service. As root,
chkconfig gpm off
Cheers, Ben
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