svgalib, links, and gpm

Motoi-Sakuraba-Milfeuille · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 14 Dec 2004 Posts: 125

Whenever I use links and the svgalib driver, svgalib always says "failed to initialize mouse". I understand that gpm needs to be emerged, so I installed it, and added it to the runlevel. It works fine now. However links with svgalib still refuses to initialize the mouse!
I'm on svgalib 1.9.19. I did re-emerge links and svgalib with gpm in my USE flags after installing gpm.
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codergeek42 · Posted: Sun May 15, 2005 3:48 am Post subject:

Try specifying

Motoi-Sakuraba-Milfeuille · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 14 Dec 2004 Posts: 125

it works now! Thank you so much!!!
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codergeek42 · Posted: Sun May 15, 2005 6:33 am Post subject:

Excellent. Glad I could help.

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paras_rasmatazz · n00b Joined: 21 Apr 2004 Posts: 39

Sorry, but this doesn't work for me when starting links2 (or any other program which uses svgalib for graphics output) as a non-root user. After fiddling around with the mousedevice permissions a bit, I changed

crw-r--r-- 1 root root 13, 63 4. Jun 2006 /dev/input/mice

to

crw-rw-rw 1 root root 13, 63 4. Jun 2006 /dev/input/mice

and suddenly the mouse started working in non-root svgalib apps.

Obviously /dev/input/mice needs write access in order to let non-root users use the mouse in svgalib apps. Seems rather strange to me because i can't see what a program could SEND to a mouse, maybe it needs write access during svgalibs mouse initialization routine only ?

ztomiccomputers · n00b Joined: 27 Feb 2007 Posts: 3

rw chmod helped me. thanx for the post.

was tryin to get advancemame and advancemenu working in svga mode:
this should work (sorry if I'm off topic):

build advancemame and advancemenu from source (quick and easy: if you emerge and use SDL, you can run in X. don't do the rest of this)
> emerge svgalib
> cp ADVMAME-SRC_DIR/config/mame/svgalib/svgalib-devfs.sh /etc/udev/scripts/
edit /etc/vga/libvga.conf (mouse is IMPS2 or PS2, etc.)
> chmod a+rw /dev/input/mice
> modprobe svgalib-helper
> modules-update
> advancemame
> advancemenu
> advcfg -advmenuc
> advcfg
> advmenu

12 easy steps! (yeah right!) no it's not easy. very poor documentation on the issue. next step is getting Daphne working with advancemenu.

ztomiccomputers · n00b Joined: 27 Feb 2007 Posts: 3

well heck!
chmod /dev/input/mice works but only until reboot. Udev creates the device anew and thus permissions are reset.

anyone have an idea?

also; will have to insert svgalib-helper into /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 to get it to load on reboot.