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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.uoregon.edu!news.bc.net!rover.ucs.ualberta.ca!suisse.cheese.com!root From: root@suisse.cheese.com (THa FLATLiNE) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: FreeBSD Mouse & Printer Date: 24 Jul 1995 11:35:15 GMT Organization: Computing and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Lines: 15 Message-ID: <3v00hj$13e0@rover.ucs.ualberta.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: gpu3.srv.ualberta.ca X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] I just installed FreeBSD 2.0.5 (ftp://ftp.freebsd.org: /pub/FreeBSD/2.0.5-RELEASE) and I would like to know if there is anything like Linux's GPM mouse driver for the console to allow cut and pasting between consoles. I do not use X-Windows (do not have the space for it) nor plan to use it. Also, I tried configuring my printer for FreeBSD (worked fine under Linux) but when I print, it prints "ROOT" and "<filename>" in huge ascii fonts and does not print the file (this is with lpr) when I try cat'ing the file to /dev/lpt0, it prints the file, but it prints so slowly, I could get a block of paper out and scribble the information down by hand faster. Any comments would be appriciated.