On April 21, 2022 6:07:20 PM GMT+02:00, Fred wrote:
> Hello,
>
> What program is used as mouse driver on Beowulf and Chimaera? Gpm was
> previously used but it is not installed now. I need to work with a
> nonstandard serial three button mouse without scroll wheel. It needs a
> baud rate
Hello,
What program is used as mouse driver on Beowulf and Chimaera? Gpm was
previously used but it is not installed now. I need to work with a
nonstandard serial three button mouse without scroll wheel. It needs a
baud rate specification and gpm has an option for this. I know that gpm
On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 09:07:20AM -0700, Fred wrote:
> Hello,
>
> What program is used as mouse driver on Beowulf and Chimaera? Gpm was
> previously used but it is not installed now. I need to work with a
> nonstandard serial three button mouse without scroll wheel. It needs a baud
> rate
An alternative to "gpm" would be "consolation". It's based on
"libinput". I've never tried serial mice, but you can probably install &
start "inputattach", and then "consolation" should probably pick it up
if it's installed. inputattach should also work with other things such
as X11 and
On 4/21/22 13:09, Florian Zieboll wrote:
On April 21, 2022 9:28:16 PM GMT+02:00, wrote:
Hi,
If I install gpm or consolation won't that conflict with whatever driver
is already installed?
gpm (and I suppose also consolation) is active only on the console, not in
virtual terminals - so
Hi Fred,
On 21/4/22 23:39, Fred wrote:
I don't understand what you mean by virtual terminal.
For sure the login prompts of tty2, tty3... brung up by holding down the
Ctrl+Alt keys, and pressing one of the function keys F2, F3...
Cheers,
Aitor.
Hi,
If I install gpm or consolation won't that conflict with whatever driver
is already installed? The gpm man page says it is not allowed to have
two instances of gpm running at the same time and there is an option to
kill the previous instance.
Best regards,
Fred
On 4/21/22 11:50,
On April 21, 2022 9:28:16 PM GMT+02:00, wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If I install gpm or consolation won't that conflict with whatever driver
> is already installed?
gpm (and I suppose also consolation) is active only on the console, not in
virtual terminals - so there's no conflict.
Libre Grüße,
Hi again,
On 22/4/22 0:21, aitor wrote:
For sure the login prompts of tty2, tty3... brung up by holding down the
Ctrl+Alt keys, and pressing one of the function keys F2, F3...
In debian the first six virtual TTYs (tty1, tty2,... tty6) are non-graphical,
according to the configuration in
