Configuring <application><acronym>gpm</acronym></application>
gpm init.d script
The gpm init.d script can be created using
the following commands: (This assumes that you have followed the
LFS default of having your $rc_base set to /etc/rc.d)
cat > /etc/rc.d/init.d/gpm << "EOF"
#!/bin/sh
# Begin $rc_base/init.d/gpm
# Based on sysklogd script from LFS-3.1 and earlier.
# Rewritten by Gerard Beekmans - gerard@linuxfromscratch.org
# GPM specific parts by Mark Hymers - markh@linuxfromscratch.org
source /etc/sysconfig/rc
source $rc_functions
if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/mouse ]
then
source /etc/sysconfig/mouse
fi
if [ -z "$MDEVICE" ] || [ -z "$PROTOCOL" ]
then
echo "Please create an /etc/sysconfig/mouse file containing"
echo "MDEVICE and PROTOCOL values"
exit 1;
fi
case "$1" in
start)
echo "Starting gpm..."
loadproc gpm -m $MDEVICE -t $PROTOCOL
;;
stop)
echo "Stopping gpm..."
killproc gpm
;;
restart)
$0 stop
sleep 1
$0 start
;;
status)
statusproc gpm
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|status}"
exit 1
;;
esac
# End $rc_base/init.d/gpm
EOF
chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/init.d/gpm
You then need to create symbolic links to this file in the relevant rc.d
directories. For example:
cd /etc/rc.d/init.d &&
ln -sf ../init.d/gpm ../rc0.d/K10gpm &&
ln -sf ../init.d/gpm ../rc1.d/K10gpm &&
ln -sf ../init.d/gpm ../rc2.d/K10gpm &&
ln -sf ../init.d/gpm ../rc3.d/S70gpm &&
ln -sf ../init.d/gpm ../rc4.d/S70gpm &&
ln -sf ../init.d/gpm ../rc5.d/S70gpm &&
ln -sf ../init.d/gpm ../rc6.d/K10gpm
Config files
/etc/sysconfig/mouse
This file contains the name of your mouse device and the protocol which
it uses. To create this file, run the following:
cat > /etc/sysconfig/mouse << "EOF"
# start /etc/sysconfig/mouse
MDEVICE=yourdevice
PROTOCOL=yourprotocol
# end /etc/sysconfig/mouse
EOF
Configuration Information
Examples of values to set MDEVICE and
PROTOCOL to are
MDEVICE=/dev/psaux
PROTOCOL=imps2
A list of which protocol values are known can be found by running
gpm -t -help. Your MDEVICE setting depends on
which type of mouse you have. For example,
/dev/ttyS0 for a serial mouse (on Windows this is
COM1), /dev/input/mice is often used for
USB mice
and /dev/psaux for PS2 mice. It is normally
thought not a good idea to link /dev/mouse to the relevant device, but
instead to reference it directly.