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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: kernel-image-2.6.9-powerpc: Console mouse cursor (with gpm) behaves oddly in 2.6.9
- From: Kevin McCarty <kmccarty@Princeton.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 12:21:17 -0500
- Message-id: <200412301721.iBUHLHmN004497@smtpserver1.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
GPG public key ID: 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544
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Hi, ...
This bug is against a 2.6.9 kernel, and there was no response to my moreinfo
request in january, i think we can safely close this one, and if there resally
is problems, a new bug should be opened.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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