Having nearly completed installing LFS 7.2 on my home computer (I have not yet tried booting into it), on the advice at the end of the LFS book I'm installing a variety of BLFS software to make my life easier when I do boot LFS.
I'm doing this on an older machine (Intel board and processor) that has Debian installed on a 1TB disk, and LFS is being installed on a 500GB disk. It also has Windows XP installed on another 1TB disk. One package is GPM for cut and paste with a mouse. At the end of the GPM installation instructions is a section on configuring the mouse, which sets up a file thusly: ################# cat > /etc/sysconfig/mouse << "EOF" # Begin /etc/sysconfig/mouse MDEVICE="<yourdevice>" PROTOCOL="<yourprotocol>" GPMOPTS="<additional options>" # End /etc/sysconfig/mouse EOF ################# I don't see any specific instructions for finding the "<....>" information. However, one of the installed GPM programs is "mouse-test", which seems to produce the right information. But when I run it, the program outputs a few lines including one that says "if you get bored during this, try Ctrl-C", and then never comes back even after 18 hours. Am I missing something? Any help would be appreciated. I looked for a "sysconfig" directory in the Debian filesystem but does not have one. I don't know where to look for the equivalent (and an equivalent "mouse" file in the Debian installation. A couple of other things: When I get around to booting into LFS, does GPM get loaded automatically? What terminal emulator is good to use after booting into LFS? The various ones listed in the BLFS book require a lot of other stuff to be installed. For example, xterm-279 requires a lot of X-Windows stuff. Alan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
