Bug#287867: kernel-image-2.6.9-powerpc: Console mouse cursor (with gpm) behaves oddly in 2.6.9

[Kevin McCarty <kmccarty@Princeton.EDU>]

Package: kernel-image-2.6.9-powerpc
Version: 2.6.9-3
Severity: normal

Hello,

I just tried upgrading from kernel 2.6.8 to 2.6.9, and found a strange
behavior in the gpm cursor.  The cursor is now invisible, and when moving
it around the console, all text it passes over disappears (turns black,
like the console background color).  If the mouse button is pressed, the
cursor becomes visible (white) while the button is held down.

This behavior was also noticed by someone else, as the last item in this
message: http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2004/12/msg00494.html

The mouse cursor behaves normally in X (which is reading from the
/dev/gpmdata repeater).

I have changed nothing in my system configuration, only booted into 2.6.9
instead of 2.6.8.  I have an iBook G3 700 MHz (dual USB, white).  I'm
running udev 0.050-2 if that makes any difference.  lsmod under 2.6.9 outputs
the following:

Module                  Size  Used by
ipv6                  320648  10
tsdev                   9024  0
ohci_hcd               26436  0
usbcore               143412  3 ohci_hcd
ohci1394               42116  0
ieee1394              448424  1 ohci1394
ide_cd                 49700  0
cdrom                  49980  1 ide_cd
tun                    11552  0
evdev                  11904  2
apm_emu                 8204  2
dmasound_pmac          94820  1
dmasound_core          22096  2 dmasound_pmac
soundcore              11780  2 dmasound_core
radeon                158520  2
uninorth_agp            8480  1
agpgart                42508  2 uninorth_agp
sungem                 39844  0
crc32                   4608  1 sungem
sungem_phy             10048  1 sungem
ext3                  141008  2
jbd                    71960  1 ext3
mbcache                10052  1 ext3
ide_disk               28768  4
unix                   32216  450


And here are the contents of my /etc/gpm.conf:

# [uninteresting comments deleted to save space]
device=/dev/psaux
responsiveness=
repeat_type=ms3
type=autops2
append=''
sample_rate=


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-powerpc
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages kernel-image-2.6.9-powerpc depends on:
ii  initrd-tools                  0.1.74     tools to create initrd image for p
ii  module-init-tools             3.1-rel-2  tools for managing Linux kernel mo

-- no debconf information

regards,

-- 
Kevin B. McCarty <kmccarty@princeton.edu>   Physics Department
WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/    Princeton University
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