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The 2.1.7 installation with 1999-02-11 disks went well and the
default selection after reboot gave no errors, except of gpm
which did not work.
Here's my hardware, after that I'll describe what went wrong
with gpm:
CONFIGURATION:
machine: Abit BH6 mother board, Celeron 300A overclocked to 450MHz
memory: 128MB SDRAM
disk: IBM Deskstar 8GB
scsi: none
sound: none
video card: Matrox Millennium G200 (8MB)
cd-rom: Mitsumi 32x (IDE/ATAPI)
net card: 3Com 905b
mouse: Logitech mouseman ps/2, model M-S35, 3 buttons
The mouse shown at
http://www.cpu2000.com/product_htm/log_ps2_3btn.htm
looks like the one I have, except my mouse has light gray cord
and black and white Logitech logo :)
Anyway, I've seen lots of those and think it's quite common
model.
When I was going through the configure phase of installation,
and it was time for gpm to get configured, I choose to run
gmp-mouse-test. Testing went well until it was time to try
the new mouse configuration:
Well, it seems like your mouse is already detected:
it is on the device "/dev/psaux", and speaks the protocol "ps2"
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Where is your mouse [/dev/ttyS0]?
> /dev/psaux
What type is your mouse (or help) [ms]?
> ps2
Set the responsiveness (normally not needed) []?
>
Do you want to add any additional arguments [-l "a-zA-Z0-9_.:~/\300-\326\330-\366\370-\377"]?
>
Do you want to test this configuration (y/N)? y
gpm -m /dev/psaux -t ps2 -l "a-zA-Z0-9_.:~/\300-\326\330-\366\370-\377"
Finish testing by typing Ctrl-D
gpm: freopen(stderr) failed
The same thing happens also when running gpm by hand:
jopus:~# /usr/sbin/gpm -m /dev/psaux -t ps2
jopus:~# gpm: freopen(stderr) failed
As you can see, gpm dies when it tries to freopen(). I tried to
strace it, but it was impossible to do, since it fork()s a child
and the failure happens after that. There is no command line
option to prevent it from backgrounding itself.
I also tried gpm packages from hamm and potato, gpm_1.13-5.deb
and gpm_1.16.0-3.deb respectively, with no luck. However, the
potato version uses syslog and outputs these lines when it dies:
Feb 14 17:52:23 jopus gpm[194]: oops() invoked from gpn.c(463)
Feb 14 17:52:23 jopus gpm[194]: freopen(stderr) failed: Operation not supported by device
I also tried 2.0.35 psaux module (insmod -f psaux.o), but it
did not help.
I know the mouse works, since it worked earlier with 2.1.[2-4]
disks and works with FreeBSD. Also, when the psaux module is
isntalled, dmesg shows this:
PS/2 auxiliary pointing device detected -- driver installed.
One thought just occurred. cat /proc/interrupts does not show
ps2 mouse. On a 2.2.1 box it does.
jopus:~# cat /proc/interrupts
0: 294192 timer
1: 1726 keyboard
2: 0 cascade
5: 2227 eth0
8: 2 + rtc
13: 1 math error
14: 4452 + ide0
15: 0 + ide1
linux-2.2.1# cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0
0: 16525576 XT-PIC timer
1: 41683 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
7: 252227 XT-PIC eth0
9: 188188 XT-PIC eth1
10: 6391960 XT-PIC nicstar
12: 380042 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse
13: 1 XT-PIC fpu
14: 109006 XT-PIC ide0
15: 318023 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0
Does anyone have suggestions what to do next?
// Heikki
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Heikki Vatiainen * hessu@cs.tut.fi
Tampere University of Technology * Tampere, Finland
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