Re: [lfs-support] 7.3 trackball not working with gpm
On Sun, 18 Aug 2013 18:57:14 -0800 Richard Coffee richard.cof...@inbox.com wrote: My setup is virtually identical, except POLLDEV was set to Module. Am recompiling kernel now for it. Hope it makes a difference. Thanks. You can cat each device in /dev/input/ while you move your trackball and see which device is used. /dev/input/mice is input from all mice. Then you have separate mouse devices or if your mouse somehow gets an event device then it is with an event device and number. If you get no terminal output when catting /dev/input/mice or /dev/input/mouse0 mouse1... then still a kernel issue. Can always view your kernel log and see what is being loaded. William Harrington kb0...@berzerkula.org Thank you, that was exactly the information I needed to debug the problem. Catting /dev/input/mouse0 gave me good results, and I finally tracked the issue down to, of course, human error, specifically /etc/sysconfig/mouse, the config file for gpm. I had copied the file from my working LFS install on the same machine, without realizing that the path might change. Had to change this line: MDEVICE=/dev/mouse to: MDEVICE=/dev/input/mouse0 I also believe that creating the /dev/mouse link to /dev/input/mouse0 should have worked as well. I haven't really studied that part of the install before, just never had any problems there. Also ran across something I didn't understand, in that there was a kernel message indicating that a /dev/hidraw0 is also the trackball. Catting it indicated this is the case, but gpm would not work with it, only with /dev/input/mouse0. Tailing both input to files showed a difference between the data each is producing. hidraw0 is not present on other LFS installs I've done. Figure it has to be the new kernel version. Thanks to everyone that answered: William, Ken, and Armin. I appreciate the help. richard GET FREE SMILEYS FOR YOUR IM EMAIL - Learn more at http://www.inbox.com/smileys Works with AIM®, MSN® Messenger, Yahoo!® Messenger, ICQ®, Google Talk™ and most webmails -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
[lfs-support] 7.3 trackball not working with gpm
I recently finished up with 7.3. Didn't have serious problems getting it to boot, however, when I installed gpm, I couldn't get my trackball to work. Googling the issue came up with a few hits, but nothing very helpful. I suspect it has something to do with the kernel or udev because there is no mouse symlink in /dev as there is with older LFS installs I've done. Grepping the config file for MOUSE showed the exact same settings as I've used in previous kernels. Any advice would be appreciated. richard FREE 3D EARTH SCREENSAVER - Watch the Earth right on your desktop! Check it out at http://www.inbox.com/earth -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: [lfs-support] 7.3 trackball not working with gpm
I recently finished up with 7.3. Didn't have serious problems getting it to boot, however, when I installed gpm, I couldn't get my trackball to work. Googling the issue came up with a few hits, but nothing very helpful. I suspect it has something to do with the kernel or udev because there is no mouse symlink in /dev as there is with older LFS installs I've done. Grepping the config file for MOUSE showed the exact same settings as I've used in previous kernels. mouse nodes should be in /dev/input/, for main mouse it's /dev/input/mice. You don't really want the old /dev/psaux interface. On previous installs /dev/mouse has been a link to /dev/input/mouse0. That link is not created for 7.3. If course I don't know if that is the issue, but it is one of the differences I've spotted. Manually creating the link didn't fix the problem, so I'm guessing that it's a symptom and not the cause. I've also looked through the /lib/udev directory files, and tried turning off psaux in the kernel. :( richard FREE 3D EARTH SCREENSAVER - Watch the Earth right on your desktop! Check it out at http://www.inbox.com/earth -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: [lfs-support] 7.3 trackball not working with gpm
I recently finished up with 7.3. Didn't have serious problems getting it to boot, however, when I installed gpm, I couldn't get my trackball to work. Googling the issue came up with a few hits, but nothing very helpful. I suspect it has something to do with the kernel or udev because there is no mouse symlink in /dev as there is with older LFS installs I've done. Grepping the config file for MOUSE showed the exact same settings as I've used in previous kernels. mouse nodes should be in /dev/input/, for main mouse it's /dev/input/mice. You don't really want the old /dev/psaux interface. On previous installs /dev/mouse has been a link to /dev/input/mouse0. That link is not created for 7.3. If course I don't know if that is the issue, but it is one of the differences I've spotted. Manually creating the link didn't fix the problem, so I'm guessing that it's a symptom and not the cause. I've also looked through the /lib/udev directory files, and tried turning off psaux in the kernel. :( This is what I've got on my current machine. I don't use gpm, or a trackball, so these might not be _enough_ and I've no idea if the SCREEN sizes matter. # # Input device support # CONFIG_INPUT=y # CONFIG_INPUT_FF_MEMLESS is not set CONFIG_INPUT_POLLDEV=y # CONFIG_INPUT_SPARSEKMAP is not set # CONFIG_INPUT_MATRIXKMAP is not set ...stuff trimmed CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_TRACKPOINT=y (my options after this are unset, but they might apply to your hardware). My setup is virtually identical, except POLLDEV was set to Module. Am recompiling kernel now for it. Hope it makes a difference. Thanks. richard GET FREE SMILEYS FOR YOUR IM EMAIL - Learn more at http://www.inbox.com/smileys Works with AIM®, MSN® Messenger, Yahoo!® Messenger, ICQ®, Google Talk™ and most webmails -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: [lfs-support] bash vs dash
-Original Message- My error with this page, even after having built one or two versions of LFS, was that the last line: gcc compilation OK that made me ignore the other lines, when some of these lines were telling me that I had requirements to fix. my script aborts if /bin/sh is not bash, awk not gawk or yacc not bison. if awk or yacc are scripts, i show a message to check the script. The idea of the script was that it should be short. Generally the problem is that the symlinks are not set and occasionally makeinfo is not installed. Rarely is the problem an out-of-date executable. I have a suggestion. At the bottom of the list, which the average person will pay more attention to anyway, add this test: [ $(readlink /bin/sh) == dash ] echo FIX ME! or perhaps: if [ $(readlink /bin/sh) == dash ]; then echo FIX ME! fi just my two cents. richard FREE ONLINE PHOTOSHARING - Share your photos online with your friends and family! Visit http://www.inbox.com/photosharing to find out more! -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
