Re: gpm troubles on potato? (kbd-related?)
I had some problems similar to this on a recent potato install. On this
machine, the Logitech PS/2 mouse connects to a separate mouse port instead
of a standard serial port. Both kernels 2.0.36 and 2.29 had the same
issue. Turned out that /dev/mouse pointed to /dev/ttyS0 when it needed to
point to /dev/psaux. Resetting the /dev/mouse symlink and setting the
protocol in /etc/gpm.conf to ps2 fixed it.
Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary
On Sat, 12 Jun 1999, Lazarus Long wrote:
> Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 00:19:18 +0000
> From: Lazarus Long <lazarus@frontiernet.net>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Cc: dirson@debian.org, james@nocrew.org
> Subject: gpm troubles on potato? (kbd-related?)
>
> Has anyone else here been experiencing gpm troubles on potato in recent
> days? I've tried downgrading gpm and libs to a version which is working
> on another box, but that hasn't helped.
>
> This is a PS/2 style mouse, btw.
>
> Syslog reports "/usr/sbin/gpm[pid]: Error in protocol" whenever I move
> the mouse, and the keyboard locks up for a while. (I've even gone to a
> remote machine and remotely rebooted during these periods, not knowing
> it might resolve itself in time.)
>
> Is there any chance this is due to the recent changes in the kbd package?
> It's fairly obviously not gpm, since downgrading gpm didn't help.
>
> Being rather ill at present, I'm not trusting my own diagnostic skills
> like I normally would, and may have missed something obvious.
>
> Suggestions?
>
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