Re: console/gpm mouse breakage 2.6.3-rc1-mm1

From: tabris
Date: Wed Feb 11 2004 - 00:26:50 EST


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On Tuesday 10 February 2004 3:11 pm, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 06:05:19AM -0500, tabris wrote:
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> > just went to 2.6.3 this morning due to frustrations with my PDC20265
> > causing lockups... hoping that 2.6 solves this problem...
> >
> > and now i'm having trouble where gpm doesn't work right... cilcks don't
> > register as a click event. Yes, it works fine in X (using GPM in repeater
> > mode, -R raw. the old hack I used to allow X to use both mice, as well as
> > eliminating the gpm crashes every couple times I switched btwn X and
> > console mode.)
> >
> > instead I get characters echoed to my terminal
> > left click: Q
> > right click: W
> > middle click: E (plus some control character... i haven't tried a capture
> > and hexdump yet)
> >
> > also, my PS/2 mouse (MS IMPS/2) no longer works. from any /dev node I've
> > tried.
>
> This is very interesting. Can you post your /proc/bus/input/devices and
> dmesg?

ok. updated... i rebuilt it, and made psmouse a module. mouse now is working
with gpm. (tracking feels funny tho)

also, it does NOT have the issue with the odd console echo. but my
USB/wireless mouse still has that problem.

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