On 10/18/2012 12:43 PM, Feuerbacher, Alan 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.
I don't know - I never use mouse-test, but I just tried it now and it does mention not to run it if you're also running anything else that uses the mouse (like X). Did you run it after booting into the LFS system, or did you do so on your host while in X? > > 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. Not sure why you're referencing Debian here if you're building on an LFS system - if you want GPM on your Debian system then just use its own package manager (probably through apt-get I assume) to install it there, and ask for help in some Debian support channel for where that stuff is located on Debian. Also, the BLFS book does give a command for how to see the list of known protocols, and gives several possibilities for MDEVICE. > > A couple of other things: > > When I get around to booting into LFS, does GPM get loaded automatically? That is what the GPM bootscript is for. > 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. Not sure why you'd need a terminal emulator if *not* in X...xterm is certainly the one in BLFS with the least dependencies though...are you sure you're not confusing terminal emulators with the virtual text consoles? > Alan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
