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SAngeli
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 Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 9:04 pm Post subject: LiveCD and Mouse |
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Hi,
When you boot with LiveCD to install Gentoo, after Gentoo finished loading, you are at the promt ready to perform the installation. Is there a way to enable the mouse or I do not remember correctly and instead it works?
I wish to use the mouse so that I can cut paste and others.
Also, when you perform (as an example) dmesg|grep hd it displays all entries and highlights the word hd in read color. Is it possible to do the same on a production PC both as root and normal user? This is really useful.
Thank you,
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kimchi_sg
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| Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 12:30 am Post subject: Re: LiveCD and Mouse |
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| SAngeli wrote: | When you boot with LiveCD to install Gentoo, after Gentoo finished loading, you are at the promt ready to perform the installation. Is there a way to enable the mouse or I do not remember correctly and instead it works?
I wish to use the mouse so that I can cut paste and others. |
The GPM service is started in the liveCD. Try to move your mouse and see if it is detected.
Copy by selecting text, then paste by middle-clicking where you want it to be.  |
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SAngeli
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| Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 11:33 am Post subject: |
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Hi,
I discovered that if I do not start the gpm service, LiveCD does not start it automatically.
So, I do /etcinit.d/gpm start
Do you know how to map the mouse buttons so that I have Right button instead of Middle for Paste?
I assume that the Copy function is automatically done as soon as you release the Left mouse button. Correct?
Thanks,
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kimchi_sg
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| SAngeli wrote: | | Do you know how to map the mouse buttons so that I have Right button instead of Middle for Paste? |
No.
But if you want to do this because you have a 2-button mouse, you can substitute the middle-click with clicking both left and right mouse buttons at the same time.
| SAngeli wrote: | | I assume that the Copy function is automatically done as soon as you release the Left mouse button. Correct? |
Yes. |
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