Re: When was /dev/gpmdata put into use??

[Carel Fellinger <cfelling@iae.nl>]

On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 07:13:43PM -0600, John Foster wrote:
...
> /dev/mouse is a link to /dev/gpmdata 
> I have selected /dev/gpmdata in Xf86Setup
> I have selected /dev/psaux in gpm.conf
> 
> Now the mouse works in All X windows apps including anything run in an
> xterm window.
> It will still only cut and past in the console apps. This is an
> improvement! Thanks.

good to hear it's working

> Any other tips or ideas. I still would like to have full mouse control
> in the console apps.. i.e. MC and some other curses based apps. I
> repeat, it worked fine for 3 years before upgrading to Debian 2.2r2 and
> changing to gdm as my Xwindow display manager. Since this was a complete
> reinstall I really don't know where to look.

mc and lynx don't, but w3m does work with mouse support on console.
they all should work, but they are improperly build I think, as ldd
learns us that they don't use libgpm at all.  Ofcourse w3m does.
Maybe someone should have a look if this bug is already reported.
So install libgpm-dev and do "apt-get -b source mc" and you should
be in business again.

$ ldd /usr/bin/mc
        libglib-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0 (0x40018000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4003a000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)


$ ldd /usr/bin/w3m-en
        libgc.so.5 => /usr/lib/libgc.so.5 (0x40018000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x4003a000)
        libnsl.so.1 => /lib/libnsl.so.1 (0x40057000)
        libncurses.so.5 => /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0x4006d000)
-->     libgpm.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgpm.so.1 (0x400ac000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x400b2000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x4018f000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)

-- 
groetjes, carel