Re: Borked mouse

[Kent West <westk@nicanor.acu.edu>]

Ross Vandegrift wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> 	I've got a big problem with my mouse on a Debian testing box.  I began
> building up the box last Thursday for Friday and everything was going smoothly,
> including the mouse.  Today, I power up the machine (untouched since Friday) and
> bam, I've got no mouse action.  Swapping the mouse, mobo header, kernel version,
> and gpm version all come out to have these effects:
>
> 1) 'cat /dev/psaux' and move mouse prints garbage like it should
> 2) 'gpm -m /dev/psaux -t ps2'  gives nothing.
> 3) A custom compiled gpm works like a charm with the above command line.
>
> Bug in the gpm deb?
>
> Ross Vandegrift
> ross@willow.seitz.com

I noticed late last week that a newly built Sid box had trouble with the 
mouse. Running /etc/init.d/gpm once (like during the boot process) left 
the mouse dead; running it a second time brought the mouse to life. I 
didn't bother trying to track down the problem. I just decided to run 
gpm twice in a row to get by until the (presumed) bug was fixed.

Kent