Re: floppy and mouse

[Marco Gerards]

fomin@ipmt-hpm.ac.ru writes:

> Recently  I installed Hurd from Debian mini-iso. It cannot support floppy
> disks. When I mount a floppy disk (settrans -cga /floppy /hurd/ext2fs
> (or fatfs) /dev/fd0) it either hangs or types error. If  I format the
> floppy on other system (on HURD there is no fdformat) and make ext2 it tell   
>                  
> that block size is not equal memory page size as I understand. When 
> filesystem                  
> of diskette is fat system mounts the diskette but if I try to see its content 
> (ls /floppy) ,
> the system hangs. What does it mean?

There are problems with write support on fatfs.  Please use it
read-only.  I think that should work.

> Could anyone tell me how can I install mouse on hurd? I have USB mouse
> with 3 buttons. I can replace it with mouse on com1 port if it does
> not supported. In Linux there is a gpm programme for mise but on hurd
> there was not gpm. How mouse is supported on hurd?

You have to use the console client.  It has mouse support through GNU
Mach.  USB mouses are not supported, but serial and PS/2 mouses are.
For example for PS/2 mouses:

console -d vga -d pc_kbd -d pc_mouse /dev/vcs

After that you can use programs on the console that use the mouse, for
example mc using `mc -x'.

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Marco