[gentoo-user] Enable the mouse for the console

[gentoo-user] Enable the mouse for the console

[Richard Broersma Jr]

Can anyone point me to a howto link so that I can enable my mouse for the console?

Regards,
Richard Broersma Jr.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Enable the mouse for the console

[Stuart Howard]

This is what you are looking for I would say

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gpm.xml

On 06/05/07, Richard Broersma Jr <rabroersma@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Can anyone point me to a howto link so that I can enable my mouse for the console?
>
> Regards,
> Richard Broersma Jr.
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>


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Re: [gentoo-user] Enable the mouse for the console

[Jesús Guerrero]

El Sun, 6 May 2007 09:23:27 -0700 (PDT)
Richard Broersma Jr <rabroersma@yahoo.com> escribió:

> Can anyone point me to a howto link so that I can enable my mouse for
> the console?

emerge gpm && rc-update add gpm default && /etc/init.d/gpm start

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Re: [gentoo-user] Enable the mouse for the console

[Nick]

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On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 09:23:27AM -0700, Richard Broersma Jr wrote:
> Can anyone point me to a howto link so that I can enable my mouse for the console?
> 
> Regards,
> Richard Broersma Jr.

I believe the following should do the trick:

$ emerge gpm
$ rc-config add gpm

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Re: [gentoo-user] Enable the mouse for the console

[Peter Ruskin]

On Sunday 06 May 2007, Richard Broersma Jr wrote:
> Can anyone point me to a howto link so that I can enable my mouse
> for the console?
>
emerge sys-libs/gpm, then read /etc/conf.d/gpm

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Re: [gentoo-user] Enable the mouse for the console

[Richard Broersma Jr]

Thanks everyone for the pointers!

Regards,
Richard Broersma Jr.

--- Peter Ruskin <peter.ruskin@dsl.pipex.com> wrote:

> On Sunday 06 May 2007, Richard Broersma Jr wrote:
> > Can anyone point me to a howto link so that I can enable my mouse
> > for the console?
> >
> emerge sys-libs/gpm, then read /etc/conf.d/gpm
> 
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Re: [gentoo-user] Enable the mouse for the console

[Neil Bothwick]

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Hello Richard Broersma Jr,

> Thanks everyone for the pointers!

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Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox generates zombies.

[Alan McKinnon]

On Monday 07 May 2007, Marek Miller wrote:
> When I run firefox 2.0.0.3 on my x86 laptop, the ps -eHF command
> produces following output:
>
> UID        PID  PPID  C    SZ   RSS PSR STIME TTY          TIME CMD
> ...
> ...
> marek     5788  5765 12 50526 73088    0 09:02 ?        00:13:42
> /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox-bin
> marek     5869  5788  0     0     0   0 09:02 ?
> 00:00:00       [netstat] <defunct>
>
> Firefox is a parent of defunct netstat process. Of course, when I
> close firefox, the zombie disappears too.
> Could someone explain me how to get rid of it?

Two things:

1. Please don't hijack threads. It's very rude.

2. You can't get rid of zombies. They are unkillable, hence the name. A 
zombie is a process whose immediate parent died without cleaning up 
it's children's PIDs. They end up being attached to the another parent 
further up the chain, end consume no resources except taking up one 
PID. There's a kernel thread that runs every 5 minutes or so sweeping 
them out of the way. So you can ignore zombies.

The above might be wrong, it's been a while since I verified it for 
myself; so I paraphrased the Red Hat 4 training materials. That is for 
2.6.9, it might be different these days in mainline kernels

alan


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Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox generates zombies.

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

On Monday 7 May 2007 13:09, Marek Miller wrote:

> Firefox is a parent of defunct netstat process. Of course, when I
> close firefox, the zombie disappears too.
> Could someone explain me how to get rid of it?

It's an ancient bug. See this bug report:

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51429
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[gentoo-user] Firefox generates zombies.

[Marek Miller]

When I run firefox 2.0.0.3 on my x86 laptop, the ps -eHF command 
produces following output:

UID        PID  PPID  C    SZ   RSS PSR STIME TTY          TIME CMD
...
...
marek     5788  5765 12 50526 73088    0 09:02 ?        00:13:42     
/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox-bin
marek     5869  5788  0     0     0   0 09:02 ?                    
00:00:00       [netstat] <defunct>

Firefox is a parent of defunct netstat process. Of course, when I close 
firefox, the zombie disappears too.
Could someone explain me how to get rid of it?

Marek Miller

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Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox generates zombies.

[Daniel Barkalow]

On Mon, 7 May 2007, Marek Miller wrote:

> When I run firefox 2.0.0.3 on my x86 laptop, the ps -eHF command produces
> following output:
> 
> UID        PID  PPID  C    SZ   RSS PSR STIME TTY          TIME CMD
> ...
> ...
> marek     5788  5765 12 50526 73088    0 09:02 ?        00:13:42
> /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox-bin
> marek     5869  5788  0     0     0   0 09:02 ?                    00:00:00
> [netstat] <defunct>
> 
> Firefox is a parent of defunct netstat process. Of course, when I close
> firefox, the zombie disappears too.
> Could someone explain me how to get rid of it?

IIRC, I first noticed this in 1997, running Netscape 4 on HP/UX. It's 
weird-looking, but it doesn't do anything bad.

	-Daniel
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