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Bug#632419: marked as done (X: please ask for (serial) mouse device name at installation time if no pointer is detected)

Your message dated Sun, 26 Oct 2014 18:21:06 +0100
with message-id <20141026172106.GA7227@betterave.cristau.org>
and subject line Re: Bug#632419: support for serial pointer device
has caused the Debian Bug report #632419,
regarding X: please ask for (serial) mouse device name at installation time if no pointer is detected
to be marked as done.

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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 Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 14:54:54 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

> Hi Axel,
> 
> axst@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
> 
> >     Thank you very much for putting this together. After reading
> > these and other texts, I believe that there should be an easy-to-use
> > tool to configure undetectable (usually legacy) hardware in a
> > dialogue during installation or later.
> 
> Thanks for a reminder!  Cloning the bug for the two subtasks that
> already have patches.
> 
> If you make any progress on this (e.g., by writing a simple script to
> detect the need for inputattach at some appropriate time), please feel
> free to let us know.
> 
This is unlikely to happen, so closing.

Cheers,
Julien

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