Bj�rn Eriksson wrote: > [No CC:s please, Mail-Followup-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]]
OK, for original thread, see http://mail.gnome.org/archives/mc/2002-April/msg00009.html > Hi Peter, greetings from G�teborg, And hi from a fellow Swede in Stockholm! > If you have reasons to believe it's a mouse/device/gpm-problem then > there are perhaps better places to ask. I'm afraid I don't have any > list-suggestions though. I was just hoping this might be a situation that someone else might have seen before, or there might be some way to get mc to print out debugging information, so I can track the problem down. Now that I have it working on one installation and not working on another, with no visible differences (yet), it ought to be possible to compare them and see what is different. > A couple of thoughs: BTW, I assume you mean the *Linux* console. Yes. No X is involved in this problem. On the system that doesn't work, X isn't even installed - it's a bootable Debian CD-ROM, developed by Timo Benk (who can't explain the problem either). Check out the project home page http://rescuecd.sourceforge.net/ for more details. Timo was very careful to use just standard packages from woody (the up-coming Debian release - available Real Soon Now TM). The whole system is loaded into RAM, with (he believes) everything writeable that ought to be writeable. > [0. Why use a mouse? :) And from the console at that??] The mouse is useful for select and paste operation in the console, and I like it for mc too (I grew up on the Norton Commander, back in the early eighties, so I'm used to using the mouse). > 1. Are you running X at the same time? I think you are on the machine > where it's working. (As /dev/gpmdata is the repeater pipe.) No X installed at all (except on the machine where it's working). As you point out, /dev/gpmdata should be a fifo, not a file, and Timo says that this will be fixed in the next release. I have deleted the file, and let gpm (or gpmconfig) re-create it, but it makes no difference to the situation. My guess is that mc uses /dev/gpmctl to get its mouse input (but maybe someone else knows better ;-). > 2. It's not likely to be a mc problem. More likely a library problem > since you've asserted that the mouse 'works' [the cursor moves and you > can paste]. Have you tried any other console-apps like lynx, w3m, links? Not yet, that will be my next step, then. Any idea which libraries might be causing the problem, or a good place to start looking? -- Best regards, Peter Hugosson-Miller _______________________________________________ Mc-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel
