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Re: BUG: SVGATextMode or GPM



I got mail from Igor on this subject this morning.  To save him
the trouble of spelling it out yet again, here is his message.



>From igor@digicron.com Tue Dec 23 05:35:27 1997
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 23:09:07 +0500
From: Igor Grobman <igor@digicron.com>
To: Lindsay Allen <allen@cleo.murdoch.edu.au>
Cc: debian-testing@lists.debian.org, Igor Grobman <igor@digicron.com>
Subject: Re: *--* svgatextmode and gpm 

I am on debian-testing btw, so you did not have to cc :-)

> 
> /etc/rcS2.d has these entries:
> 
> S20gpm
> S40svgatextmode
> 
> My box starts up in 80x25 and is then changed to 116x33 and because gpm is
> started before svgatextmode I cannot move my cursor outside the 80x25
> area.  So gpm needs to be started after svgatextmode.
> 
> I can fix my box, but how do I go about getting this situation corrected?

No, it seems that you have a customized TextConfig, so yours did not get 
updated when I made the change to it that calls /usr/sbin/STM_reset script 
which sends SIGWINCH to gpm making it aware of changed screen size.

Here is the line you need uncommented in your /etc/TextConfig

ResetProg "/usr/sbin/STM_reset"

This is becoming a FAQ, I should mention it in README.debian.


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On Tue, 23 Dec 1997, Adam Heath wrote:

> I am running lastest hamm, and when I upgraded to the new svgatextmode, it asked to remove the /etc/rc.boot files, and install new ones.  I did so, but when I rebooted, it executed after gpm.  When I boot, the kernel uses 80x25, and when svgatextmode runs, it changes it to 180x80.  However, the mouse is locked in the upper left-hand corner.  Running "/etc/init.d/gpm restart" fixes it, but svgatextmode should be run earlier in the sequence.
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