How to create /dev/gpmdata?

[Jonathan Chang]

Hi, there,

I can not find this device in /dev. Unfortunately, MAKEDEV does not know
how to create it.

Jonathan Chang

Re: How to create /dev/gpmdata?

[Cheng H. Lee]

 I can not find this device in /dev. Unfortunately, MAKEDEV does not know
 how to create it.

I don't think you have to...when I setup gpm, it was created automatically.

Cheng

Re: How to create /dev/gpmdata?

[Jonathan Chang]

On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Dominique Rousset wrote:

  I can not find this device in /dev. Unfortunately, MAKEDEV does not know
  how to create it.
  
 
 
 I think that gpm creates it. So it doesn't exist before running gpm.
 

I am running gpm 1.19.3-4, but /dev/gpmdata is still missing. However,
I do find /dev/gpmctl. Is there any relations between gpmctl and gpmdata?

Best regards,

Jonathan Chang

Re: How to create /dev/gpmdata?

[Erik Steffl]

  when in doubt about devices consult:

  /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.17/Documentation/devices.txt

  it says:

Non-transient sockets and named pipes may exist in /dev.  Common entries
are:

/dev/printersocket  lpd local socket
/dev/logsocket  syslog local socket
/dev/gpmdatasocket  gpm mouse multiplexer

  which means that it's not really a device. I think that it is created
on the fly by bpm, you might have check the docs for gpm so that you can
configure it to use gpmdata.

  running man gpm and searching for gpmdata reveals:

   -Rname Causes  `gpm'  to act as a repeater: any mouse data
  received while in graphic mode will be produced  on
  the fifo `/dev/gpmdata' in protocol name.  In prin-

  that should do it (gpm is started by /etc/init.d/gpm, I guess that's
where you would add -R flag, or perhaps /etc/gpm-root.conf, or use
gpmconfig program? I am not sure...)

erik

Jonathan Chang wrote:
 
 Hi, there,
 
 I can not find this device in /dev. Unfortunately, MAKEDEV does not know
 how to create it.
 
 Jonathan Chang
 
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Re: How to create /dev/gpmdata?

[Brian May]

 Jonathan == Jonathan Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Jonathan On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Dominique Rousset wrote:
  I can not find this device in /dev. Unfortunately, MAKEDEV
 does not know  how to create it.  
 
 
 I think that gpm creates it. So it doesn't exist before running
 gpm.
 

Jonathan I am running gpm 1.19.3-4, but /dev/gpmdata is still
Jonathan missing. However, I do find /dev/gpmctl. Is there any
Jonathan relations between gpmctl and gpmdata?

It sounds like you don't have the repeater mode of gpm enabled.
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Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED]