Alessandro Rubini [Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 10:59:35AM +0200]: > > But the strace above reports a permission problem, try to run mev as > > root. > > The original problem was "gpm clients work as root and not as normal > user". It's not a mev problem, mev is just the diagnostic tool I > suggested to use. That's what mev is for, actually. Understood it the same way, too. > So the problem is in gpm that is not working as a mouse server but > only as a cut-and-paste tool. But it wasn't meant to be only > cut-and-paste, we already had selection when I started gpm. Now I understand the issue. I will try to update mev to work as normal user with devfs. > > You should give it a try, you'll never want to miss it. > > No, thanks. My computers are small and customized. I want to control > my /dev, and don't want to get mad with hd naming. That's the reason why I like devfs: it's small and can easily be controlled. You've never headache with those hundreds of special files. But you are right, the naming scheme is a little bit 'long'. Nico -- Nico Schottelius Please send your messages pgp-signed or pgp-encrypted. If you don't know what pgp is visit www.gnupg.org. (public pgp key: ftp.schottelius.org/pub/familiy/nico/pgp-key)
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