[Mlterm-dev-en] mlterm-fb on recent Linux kernels?

[B W. <ya...@gm...>]

I'm brand-new to mlterm, so bear with me...

Trying to build mlterm-fb (mlterm-3.4.5, ./configure --enable-gui=fb),
on either x86 or x86_64 Slackware Linux. The x86 machine runs a 3.10.17
kernel, the x86_64 one runs 4.0.4. I notice doc/en/README.fb talks about
2.6 kernels, so I wonder if it's been tested lately...

The 'make install-fb' target is broken: It tries to run sub-makes
in inputmethods/*/ when most of those directories don't have
Makefiles. Worked around that with:

sed -i 's,\(for dir in main inputmethod/\)\*,\1kbd/,' Makefile.in

Afterwards, it seems to build fine with this:

  ./configure \
    --prefix=/usr \
    --sysconfdir=/etc \
    --localstatedir=/var \
    --mandir=/usr/man \
    --disable-static \
    --without-x \
    --with-gui=fb \
    --enable-anti-alias
  make
  make install-fb

...this is on a system that already has mlterm installed to /usr.

When running mlterm-fb, I get a lovely terminal display, with a shell
prompt and a mouse pointer, but nothing I type shows up in the terminal,
and the mouse pointer never moves.

It's not a permission error on /dev/input/event*, since I was running
it as root, and strace shows they're being opened without error.

When mlterm-fb is in this 'frozen' state, I can switch to another console
and see that mlterm is still running. If I kill it... then when I switch
back to the console where I ran mlterm-fb, all my keystrokes show up there
(in the regular console shell that I ran mlterm-fb from).

Tried using 'openvt -s mlterm-fb' to run it on an unallocated tty (one
that doesn't already have my shell running on it), but same results.

I don't see anything in ~/.mlterm/msg.log, and I don't see a --verbose
or --debug option in the man page. I could attach the huge strace output
file, if anyone thinks it'll help and has the time/patience to sift
through it.

So I guess my questions are... is mlterm-fb known to be broken? Has
anyone gotten it to work recently? Am I doing something obviously wrong?