"Paul W. Abrahams" <abrahams@acm.org> writes:
... I'm not that familiar with gpm, but a glance at the manpage suggests that it applies only to a textual environment and is intended to be running only when X is not running.
"Not active" may be better words than "not running". I can start both X and gpm on my computer (PS/2 mouse). If I switch to text mode via e.g. Ctrl-Alt-F2, then gpm is activated and I can use the mouse to copy and paste text there.
So I'm somewhat doubtful that either configuration section applies to gpm.
IMHO SaX2 modifies /etc/X11/XF86Config and YaST modifies /etc/sysconfig/mouse, which contains both gpm and X related variables and is used by gpm. I don't know why SUSE keeps X related configuration there but they may have a reason. -- A.M.