[BRLTTY] GPM open error: Inappropriate ioctl for device

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Nicolas Pitre on 2007/08/22 at 11:36 -0400]

>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, 

Do the messages go away if you turn off "Window Follows Pointer"?

>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.

Turning off the preference (perhaps it should be off by default) should stop
the messages. If it doesn't then that's a bug.

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