Re: Mouse

[David Steinberg <steinber@interchange.ubc.ca>]

On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, John Foster wrote:

> There was recently released a new version of gpm into Debian 2,2r2. If
> you have since upgraded and since you use a ps2 mouse; the new version
> will NOT work. You will need to dl the sources for gpm and recompile it
> on your system in order for it to work. I had to do that also. This is a
> known bug. See mail archives from last month for more details.

I'm not sure, but I think you might be mistaken.  As I recall, there is no
real problem with the gpm in potato, but just that it's default
configuration has changed.

Take a look at /etc/gpm.conf (which is read by /etc/init.d/gpm when it 
starts gpm).  If you find a line that starts with "repeat_type=",  delete
whatever comes after the equals sign, and the script will stop using the
"-R" option on gpm.  I found that when gpm stopped trying to act as a
repeater in graphics mode, X was able to access /dev/psaux directly.

Maybe I was just lucky, or maybe I'm not using the same version of gpm
(I'm using 1.17.8-18), but that was my experience.  Hope it helps.

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