[BRLTTY] Resolved: GPM open error: Inappropriate ioctl for device

[Keith Wessel]

Well, Dave, as a fellow computer nerd, I'm more than happy to do any
other tests you'd like me to try if it would help us figure out why it
won't connect to GPM. Takes less than 5 minutes to recompile and restart
with GPM in the executable.

Thanks for an outstanding Linux application! Especially with speakup
taken out of the latest kernel release 2.6.22, brltty's more useful than
ever for me!

Keith

On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 07:43:57PM -0400, Dave Mielke wrote:
> [quoted lines by Keith Wessel on 2007/08/23 at 17:12 -0500]
> 
> >Just to give some resolution to this, I just recompiled brltty without gpm
> >support (Thanks to Gentoo, I just had to turn off the gpm keyword for this
> >package and re-emerge it). Obviously, it's no longer trying to connect to
> >brltty, so it's happy now.
> >
> >I'll try rebuilding with gpm support when the new gpm version is released
> >into Gentoo's stable branch.
> 
> Also, the latest brltty (not released yet) properly handles the "Window Follows
> Pointer" preference so that no attempt is made to connect to GPM when it's off.
> 
> I think we still have a mystery on your system, though, i.e. why it wouldn't
> connect to the running gpm. That's something I'd really like to know the answer
> to.
> 
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