Using Gpm On The Text Console

[louigi600]

After a little fiddling I seem to have found out that maybe the correct mouse type is evdev but I'v not been able to figure out which is the correct device file.
I attempted to use /dev/event1 /dev/input/event1 /dev/input/mice /dev/psaux  /dev/misc/psaux .... but all I could acheive is the mous cursor to appear in the middle when I tap the screen.

Anyone know how to get it working ?

[louigi600]

Using patches from http://www.geocities.com/dt_or/gpm/gpm.html (thanks Civil) I managed to get gpm building adain and cursor now follows touchpad taps and grags.

Unfortunately I do not seem to be able to select and/or paste anything.

Building for arm will require some extra options:
./configure CFLAGS="-lm" \
  CC=armv5tel-cacko-linux-gcc \
  CPPFLAGS="-lm" \
  LDFLAGS="-lm" \
  --host=armv5tel-cacko-linux \
  --prefix=/usr \
  --sysconfdir=/etc

You also need to state LDFLAGS AGAIN when making:
LDFLAGS="-lm"  make

Anyone have any idea how to get the rest working ?

[louigi600]

Bounce !