Bug#632419: linux-image-2.6-686: Provides no support for serial pointer device
Package: linux-image-2.6-686
Version: 2.6.32+29
Severity: normal
Suddenly (after installing Squeeze) I have to use Input Attach to use a serial mouse at
all, i.e. for GPM as well as X (GDM). So far I had thought such tricks, which only serve
to force the consumer to replace perfectly good hardware with new one, limited to
commercial operating systems. I think this policy should be reversed, especially as Input
Attach does not work reliably.
I am filing against the meta package because this behaviour persists even through kernel
package upgrades, so I take it as a matter of policy.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.2
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6-686 depends on:
ii linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 2.6.32-35 Linux 2.6.32 for modern PCs
linux-image-2.6-686 recommends no packages.
linux-image-2.6-686 suggests no packages.
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