GPM (console mouse program) is not working properly under my SuSE 8.0 installation. When I move the mouse to the top of the screen, it copies and pastes continuously. This is with an IntelliMouse. The middle button and wheel work fine in Xwindows. Any ideas what's wrong? Peter Taylor
I cannot understand why you want to use GPM. That usually just screw everything up; like X-windows, KVM etc. However; when you start gpm you usually pass in a mouse type Like gpm -t ps/2 ... I think you should use gpm -t imps/2 instead. I have no ide where that is configured for SuSE 8.0. /etc/sysconfig/gpm? In SuSE 7.1 I have an parameter GPM_PARAMETER in /etc/rc/config. 'gpm -t help' is always useful... Cheers, Magnus Peter Taylor wrote:
GPM (console mouse program) is not working properly under my SuSE 8.0 installation. When I move the mouse to the top of the screen, it copies and pastes continuously. This is with an IntelliMouse. The middle button and wheel work fine in Xwindows.
Any ideas what's wrong?
Peter Taylor
Magnus Hagebris
However; when you start gpm you usually pass in a mouse type Like gpm -t ps/2 ... I think you should use gpm -t imps/2 instead. I have no ide where that is configured for SuSE 8.0. /etc/sysconfig/gpm? In SuSE 7.1 I have an parameter GPM_PARAMETER in /etc/rc/config.
This is from memory, so I hope there are not too many embarassing errors. I looked in /etc/sysconfig and in the file, displaymanager, found a line for the default, DISPLAYMANAGER="" . This looked fishy, so I changed it to "console", and was then unable to reproduce the problem. There is a line in /etc/sysconfig/mouse, GPM_PARAM="" , but it is working, so I am leaving this alone. ps aux shows a line containing something like, gpm -t imps2 -m /dev/auxps (my memory is a bit foggy here) Anyhow, it works now. Thanks! Peter Taylor
* Peter Taylor (murmur@ghg.net) [020701 20:28]:
I bought a CDROM that works fine under Win98 and Win2k, with long file names that are a mixture of upper and lower case. But under Linux, whether it be SuSE 7.1, SuSE 8.0, or Red Hat 7.2, the file names all appear exclusively in lower case, and consequently, the html links are broken. What could be causing this?
Try mounting with mount -t iso9660 -o map=off /dev/whatever /mnt/cdrom
By the way, the permissions don't make sense, either: "r-xr-xr-x" for all files, including .html and .gif .
It's because of the Rockridge translation--msdos filesystems don't have modes for files so you can only specify a single mode for all files (including directories). If they weren't executable you wouldn't be able to change into the directories. -- -ckm
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