No mouse in fbterm

Gezbarb · 2014-01-19 05:50:36

I installed fbterm and configured it, but I can't seem to make the mouse work. GPM is running and I have mouse support in both the console and in X. Googling this problem has told me almost nothing.

The mouse is a simple USB three button (two button + wheel) mouse from Logitech.

pacman -Syu is current as of posting. My system is x86-64. I tried to reboot. Based on a Google search that seemed to vaguely touch upon the problem, I tried to change the line in /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules

SUBSYSTEM=="input", KERNEL=="mouse*|mice|event*", MODE="0640"

to

SUBSYSTEM=="input", KERNEL=="mouse*|mice|event*", MODE="0660", GROUP="video"

But it made no difference. Just on the hunch that it might be a permission problem, I tried logging in with root too; still didn't work.

Graphics hardware from lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset DRAM Controller (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)

Pertinent details from uname -a: 3.12.7-2-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Jan 12 13:09:09 CET 2014 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Anyone have a solution?

Thanks

Gezbarb · 2014-02-15 05:17:08

It looks like fbterm in the pacman package is not compiled with gpm support. A workaround (arguably a solution) is to compile the code from ABS. Basically, as root, follow these instructions.

1) Get ABS set up if and current, if you haven't already. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ar … to_use_ABS

2) cp -r /var/abs/community/fbterm/ ~/abs/fbterm (or wherever you want to build it)

3) open PKGBUILD file in a text editor

4) Look for the line that looks like this:

./configure --prefix=/usr

Change it to this:

./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-gpm

5) Run: makepkg -s --asroot

6) Run: pacman -U fbterm-1.7.0-5-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz (or whatever the file ends up being called)

felixonmars · 2014-03-30 05:07:32

gpm support has been added in fbterm 1.7.0-6.

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#1 2014-01-19 05:50:36

No mouse in fbterm

#2 2014-02-15 05:17:08

Re: No mouse in fbterm

#3 2014-03-30 05:07:32

Re: No mouse in fbterm

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