Mike Manchester said:
Can kind sole help me? I've been a RedHat user for a number of years and
with the release of 8.0 I've decided to switch to Debian. However there is
one thing stopping me from making the switch.
In Redhat I can use the mouse to hilite text when in Console mode (X not
running) The mouse works fine with X. I thought it was gpm that did this
but I can't seem to get it to work. I'm not talking about xterm X is not
running this is the inittab level 3 mode not the inittab level 5.
unless you changed the runlevel your in runlevel 2 not 3 or 5. debian
doesn't make a distinction between runlevels 2,3,4,5.
gpm is what is used to control the mouse in the console. typical
config:
gpm -t imps2 -m /dev/psaux
for a ps/2 mouse connected to a ps/2 port