Re: gpm? how do I get this running?

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

karrottop wrote:

> I seem to be so full of questions the last couple of days but here is
> another.  I am trying to get gpm running.  I just found out what it was
> today and it is something I would really like to use.  From what I
> understand it will allow me a mouse pointer for the underlying purpose
> of copy/paste, and that I would like to have, badly.  Now it does appear
> the gpm is installed and should be running, I apt-get'd gpm, but I am
> getting no sign of this pointer that I should have.  Has anyone set this
> up and know what I need to do to get it running under debian?
>
> Thanks as always
> Jason Self
>
>
>  
Shell out to console if necessary (Ctrl-Alt-Fn, such as Ctrl-Aflt-F2). 
Move the mouse. Do you see a square cursor and does it follow the mouse? 
If so, you have gpm working.

If not, run "gpmconfig" and provide the correct answers. If you expect 
to use X also, you'll want to set the repeat type to "raw", and then 
reconfigure X (either "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" or manually 
tweak /etc/X11/XF86Config-4) to point to "/dev/gpmdata".

You should now be all set.

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Kent West (westk@acu.edu)