On 18 October 2012 17:43, Feuerbacher, Alan <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. ___________
MDEVICE="/dev/input/mice" PROTOCOL="imps2" GPMOPTS="" OR MDEVICE="/dev/psaux" PROTOCOL="imps2" GPMOPTS=" both work for me. Assuming you haven't got a old serial mouse with a 9 pin female connector eg http://ergocanada.com/ergo/tips/serial_plug.jpg Debian uses /etc/gpm.conf ___________ > 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? ___________ Install the /etc/rc.d/init.d/gpm init script included in the blfs-bootscripts-20120828 package? ___________ > 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 > -- -- rob -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
