Re: gpm with 2.4 kernel
On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 10:19:22AM -0800, peter@lizardking.dabney.caltech.edu wrote:
> I recently compiled myself a new kernel (Paulus' 2.4.0-test10 on a
> Wallstreet PowerBook) and spent a little while getting the new input layer
> to be happy with gpm and X-windows.
>
> When I am in the console and try to use gpm to select a chunk
> of text from the console, the text garbles itself instead of highlighting.
> When I try to paste, I get the same garbled text instead of what I
> selected. Has anyone else encountered this problem, and what causes it?
Turn of CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE, and make clean (make dep is confused by the
tricks that VGA support plays), and make yourself a new kernel. That
should fix it.
Dan
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