The 2.1.7 installation with 1999-02-11 disks went well and the default selection after reboot gave no errors, except of gpm which did not work.
Here's my hardware, after that I'll describe what went wrong with gpm: CONFIGURATION: machine: Abit BH6 mother board, Celeron 300A overclocked to 450MHz memory: 128MB SDRAM disk: IBM Deskstar 8GB scsi: none sound: none video card: Matrox Millennium G200 (8MB) cd-rom: Mitsumi 32x (IDE/ATAPI) net card: 3Com 905b mouse: Logitech mouseman ps/2, model M-S35, 3 buttons The mouse shown at http://www.cpu2000.com/product_htm/log_ps2_3btn.htm looks like the one I have, except my mouse has light gray cord and black and white Logitech logo :) Anyway, I've seen lots of those and think it's quite common model. When I was going through the configure phase of installation, and it was time for gpm to get configured, I choose to run gmp-mouse-test. Testing went well until it was time to try the new mouse configuration: Well, it seems like your mouse is already detected: it is on the device "/dev/psaux", and speaks the protocol "ps2" ********************************************************** Where is your mouse [/dev/ttyS0]? > /dev/psaux What type is your mouse (or help) [ms]? > ps2 Set the responsiveness (normally not needed) []? > Do you want to add any additional arguments [-l "a-zA-Z0-9_.:~/\300-\326\330-\366\370-\377"]? > Do you want to test this configuration (y/N)? y gpm -m /dev/psaux -t ps2 -l "a-zA-Z0-9_.:~/\300-\326\330-\366\370-\377" Finish testing by typing Ctrl-D gpm: freopen(stderr) failed The same thing happens also when running gpm by hand: jopus:~# /usr/sbin/gpm -m /dev/psaux -t ps2 jopus:~# gpm: freopen(stderr) failed As you can see, gpm dies when it tries to freopen(). I tried to strace it, but it was impossible to do, since it fork()s a child and the failure happens after that. There is no command line option to prevent it from backgrounding itself. I also tried gpm packages from hamm and potato, gpm_1.13-5.deb and gpm_1.16.0-3.deb respectively, with no luck. However, the potato version uses syslog and outputs these lines when it dies: Feb 14 17:52:23 jopus gpm[194]: oops() invoked from gpn.c(463) Feb 14 17:52:23 jopus gpm[194]: freopen(stderr) failed: Operation not supported by device I also tried 2.0.35 psaux module (insmod -f psaux.o), but it did not help. I know the mouse works, since it worked earlier with 2.1.[2-4] disks and works with FreeBSD. Also, when the psaux module is isntalled, dmesg shows this: PS/2 auxiliary pointing device detected -- driver installed. One thought just occurred. cat /proc/interrupts does not show ps2 mouse. On a 2.2.1 box it does. jopus:~# cat /proc/interrupts 0: 294192 timer 1: 1726 keyboard 2: 0 cascade 5: 2227 eth0 8: 2 + rtc 13: 1 math error 14: 4452 + ide0 15: 0 + ide1 linux-2.2.1# cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 0: 16525576 XT-PIC timer 1: 41683 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 7: 252227 XT-PIC eth0 9: 188188 XT-PIC eth1 10: 6391960 XT-PIC nicstar 12: 380042 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse 13: 1 XT-PIC fpu 14: 109006 XT-PIC ide0 15: 318023 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 Does anyone have suggestions what to do next? // Heikki -- Heikki Vatiainen * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tampere University of Technology * Tampere, Finland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
