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Bug#632419: marked as done (linux-image-2.6-686: Provides no support for serial pointer device)

Your message dated Mon, 04 Jul 2011 04:03:21 +0100
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regarding linux-image-2.6-686: Provides no support for serial pointer device
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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.

-- no debconf information

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On Sun, 2011-07-03 at 23:17 +0200, axst@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, 2 Jul 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> 
> > Which version of Debian were you using previously?
> 
> Lenny (5.0.8). But I did not upgrade, I installed Squeeze from scratch, so I can't see how
> there could be any problem related to the previous installation.
[...]

Indeed, and since you were not upgrading the installer could not
possibly know about your old configuration.  So it is hardly surprising
that your serial mouse was no longer configured.

Your old X configuration shows that you used the serial mouse driver in
the X server, not the kernel (which is why you did not need to use
inputattach).  You can use the same configuration now, if you like.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Computers are not intelligent.  They only think they are.

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