On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 05:16:10PM +0200, Chipzz wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > Can you guys do a couple of things for this bug?:
> >
> > 1) Report your gpm configuration by mailing your /etc/gpm.conf (I think
> > that's what it's called -- I don't have it installed) to this bug.
> >
> > 2) Disable GPM and reconfigure XFree86 to talk directly to /dev/psaux or
> > whatever port GPM was fastened to, and see if that causes the delay to
> > go away.
> >
> > Thanks!
>
> This solves the problem partially for me, ie, the hang time goes down,
> but does not completely disappear. It goes down from about 5 seconds to
> about 1.5 seconds.
Well, it's almost always going to take *some* amount of time to switch
VT's. I've only seen something approaching lightning-fast VT switches
on machines using fbcon and with video modes matched between the X
server and virtual console.
> Disabling gpm is really not an option for me though, as I am a quite
> heavy console user.
Okay. See below.
> gpm.conf is attached.
[...]
Content-Description: gpm.conf
[...]
> device=/dev/psaux
> responsiveness=
> repeat_type=raw
> type=imps2
> append=""
> sample_rate=
I see you're repeating as "imps2". The following item was recently
added to the xfree86 package NEWS.Debian file, and will appear in the
next release. Can you please try out its advice?
* GPM users only: those who use the the GPM repeater as the XFree86 X
server's mouse device should note that the mouse driver in XFree86 4.3.0
has been rewritten in such a way that using any protocol other than
"IntelliMouse" on the XFree86 side and "ms3" on the GPM side does not work
well. If you have configured GPM as a repeater, are using it with the
XFree86 X server, and are using anything other than "ms3" as the repeating
protocol, you will likely want to change it to "ms3". If your
XF86Config-4 file is automatically handled (see the news entry for xfree86
4.2.1-11) and uses /dev/gpmdata as the port for the configured mouse, the
protocol will automatically be migrated to "IntelliMouse" if necessary.
Otherwise, you will likely want to edit the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file
after installing this package to change any configured input devices using
the "mouse" driver and "/dev/gpmdata" as the "Device" option to set the
"Protocol" option to "IntelliMouse".
If you go back to using /dev/gpmdata for your XFree86 input device, but
have GPM repeat as "ms3" instead of "imps2", does the situation improve?
--
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