[BRLTTY] GPM open error: Inappropriate ioctl for device

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

> BTW I have those annoying messages about GPM in my syslog too, and have 
> had them for a long time.  I just never could be bothered to find and 
> fix the source of them.  And I'm running the very latest BRLTTY version 
> at the moment.
> 
> Currently I get lots of:
> 
> Aug 22 10:35:49 xanadu brltty[27884]: GPM open error: No such file or directory
> Aug 22 10:36:24 xanadu last message repeated 7 times
> Aug 22 10:37:29 xanadu last message repeated 13 times
> Aug 22 10:38:34 xanadu last message repeated 13 times
> Aug 22 10:39:39 xanadu last message repeated 13 times
> 
> GPM is indeed _not_ running, and I don't see why I should be running it 
> as I don't make any use of it, just to get rid of those messages.

Also, I have "Window Follows Pointer" and "Highlight Window" set to 
"no", so in theory BRLTTY should not even try to open any GPM device, 
right?


Nicolas