[f45b1953] | 1 | <sect2>
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[cf7ae162] | 2 | <title>Configuring <application><acronym>gpm</acronym></application></title>
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[f45b1953] | 3 |
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| 4 | <sect3><title>gpm init.d script</title>
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[2be20f1b] | 5 | <para>The <application>gpm</application> init.d script can be created using
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| 6 | the following commands: (This assumes that you have followed the
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| 7 | <acronym>LFS</acronym> default of having your $rc_base set to <filename
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[f45b1953] | 8 | class="directory">/etc/rc.d</filename>)</para>
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[2be20f1b] | 9 | <screen><userinput><command>cat > /etc/rc.d/init.d/gpm << "EOF"</command>
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[f45b1953] | 10 | #!/bin/sh
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| 11 | # Begin $rc_base/init.d/gpm
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| 12 |
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| 13 | # Based on sysklogd script from LFS-3.1 and earlier.
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| 14 | # Rewritten by Gerard Beekmans - gerard@linuxfromscratch.org
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| 15 | # GPM specific parts by Mark Hymers - markh@linuxfromscratch.org
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| 16 |
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| 17 | source /etc/sysconfig/rc
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| 18 | source $rc_functions
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| 19 |
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| 20 | if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/mouse ]
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| 21 | then
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| 22 | source /etc/sysconfig/mouse
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| 23 | fi
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| 24 |
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| 25 | if [ -z "$MDEVICE" ] || [ -z "$PROTOCOL" ]
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| 26 | then
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| 27 | echo "Please create an /etc/sysconfig/mouse file containing"
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| 28 | echo "MDEVICE and PROTOCOL values"
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| 29 | exit 1;
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| 30 | fi
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| 31 |
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| 32 | case "$1" in
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| 33 | start)
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| 34 | echo "Starting gpm..."
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| 35 | loadproc gpm -m $MDEVICE -t $PROTOCOL
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| 36 | ;;
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| 37 |
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| 38 | stop)
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| 39 | echo "Stopping gpm..."
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| 40 | killproc gpm
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| 41 | ;;
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| 42 |
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| 43 | restart)
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| 44 | $0 stop
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| 45 | sleep 1
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| 46 | $0 start
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| 47 | ;;
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| 48 |
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| 49 | status)
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| 50 | statusproc gpm
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| 51 | ;;
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| 52 |
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| 53 | *)
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| 54 | echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|status}"
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| 55 | exit 1
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| 56 | ;;
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| 57 | esac
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| 58 |
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| 59 | # End $rc_base/init.d/gpm
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[2be20f1b] | 60 | <command>EOF
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| 61 | chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/init.d/gpm</command></userinput></screen>
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[f45b1953] | 62 |
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| 63 | <para>You then need to create symbolic links to this file in the relevant rc.d
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| 64 | directories. For example:
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[2be20f1b] | 65 | <screen><userinput><command>cd /etc/rc.d/init.d &&
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[f45b1953] | 66 | ln -sf ../init.d/gpm ../rc0.d/K10gpm &&
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| 67 | ln -sf ../init.d/gpm ../rc1.d/K10gpm &&
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| 68 | ln -sf ../init.d/gpm ../rc2.d/K10gpm &&
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| 69 | ln -sf ../init.d/gpm ../rc3.d/S70gpm &&
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| 70 | ln -sf ../init.d/gpm ../rc4.d/S70gpm &&
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| 71 | ln -sf ../init.d/gpm ../rc5.d/S70gpm &&
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[2be20f1b] | 72 | ln -sf ../init.d/gpm ../rc6.d/K10gpm</command></userinput></screen></para></sect3>
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[f45b1953] | 73 |
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| 74 | <sect3><title>Config files</title>
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[064db32a] | 75 | <para><filename>/etc/sysconfig/mouse</filename>
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[f45b1953] | 76 | This file contains the name of your mouse device and the protocol which
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| 77 | it uses. To create this file, run the following:</para>
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| 78 |
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[2be20f1b] | 79 | <screen><userinput><command>cat > /etc/sysconfig/mouse << "EOF"</command>
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[f45b1953] | 80 | # start /etc/sysconfig/mouse
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| 81 | MDEVICE=yourdevice
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| 82 | PROTOCOL=yourprotocol
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| 83 | # end /etc/sysconfig/mouse
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[2be20f1b] | 84 | <command>EOF</command></userinput></screen>
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[f45b1953] | 85 | </sect3>
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| 86 |
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| 87 | <sect3><title>Configuration Information</title>
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| 88 |
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[2be20f1b] | 89 | <para>Examples of values to set <envar>MDEVICE</envar> and
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| 90 | <envar>PROTOCOL</envar> to are</para>
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[f45b1953] | 91 |
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[2be20f1b] | 92 | <screen><userinput>MDEVICE=/dev/psaux
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| 93 | PROTOCOL=imps2</userinput></screen>
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[f45b1953] | 94 |
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| 95 | <para>A list of which protocol values are known can be found by running
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[2be20f1b] | 96 | <command>gpm -t -help</command>. Your <envar>MDEVICE</envar> setting depends on
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[f45b1953] | 97 | which type of mouse you have. For example,
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[8a0cee4] | 98 | <filename>/dev/ttyS0</filename> for a serial mouse (on Windows this is
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[2be20f1b] | 99 | COM1), <filename>/dev/input/mice</filename> is often used for
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| 100 | <acronym>USB</acronym> mice
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| 101 | and <filename>/dev/psaux</filename> for <acronym>PS2</acronym> mice. It is normally
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[8a0cee4] | 102 | thought not a good idea to link <filename>/dev/mouse</filename> to the relevant device, but
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[f45b1953] | 103 | instead to reference it directly.</para>
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| 104 |
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| 105 | </sect3>
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| 106 |
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| 107 | </sect2>
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