[Pkg-gpm-devel] Bug#219974: gpm: fix found

[C. Scott Ananian]

Package: gpm
Version: 1.19.6-19
Followup-For: Bug #219974

If you're running a 2.6 kernel and getting messages like:

Feb  9 13:03:56 sincerity-forever /usr/sbin/gpm[5145]: oops() invoked from gpn.c(205)

in /var/log/syslog when you restart gpm, the problem is likely that the
mousedev or psmouse modules aren't loaded.  It was mousedev I was missing.
Adding:
  mousedev
  psmouse
to /etc/modules (and running
  modprobe mousedev ; modprobe psmouse; /etc/init.d/gpm restart
in the interim before you reboot) should fix the problem.
(At least it did for me.)

This package should be changed to recommend this step when gpm fails to
open psaux with a 'no such device' error, instead of silently failing with
a mysterious 'oops' message in the syslog.
  --scott

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686-smp
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages gpm depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]       1.4.45       Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils                 2.11.2       Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libncurses5                 5.4-4        Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  ucf                         1.13         Update Configuration File: preserv

-- debconf information:
  gpm/responsiveness:
  gpm/repeat_type: raw
  gpm/append:
* gpm/restart: true
  gpm/sample_rate:
* gpm/type: ps2
* gpm/device: /dev/psaux
* gpm/restart_default: true