[Pkg-gpm-devel] Bug#289987: wrong device setting when installing gpm

[Asho Yeh]

Package: gpm
Version: 1.19.6-19
Severity: normal

Hello.

I upgraded a new version of gpm in testing and my mice is an USB type.

The mouse is using the /dev/input/mice for the device node. When I
upgraded gpm, The third question would like to ask me whereis the
device.

I entered the "/dev/input/mice". After all, the gpm started
unsuccessfully. The syslog mentioned:
oops() invoked from gpm.c(993)
/dev/psaux: No such device

I re-checked the /etc/gpm.conf and found out the device part still had
the value: /dev/psaux which wasn't I typed.

However, the second round for "dpkg-reconfigure gpm" successfully
modified the /etc/gpm.conf. 

Is there anything wrong with my box? I hope I am not the only one.
:-)

Thanks for the great maintenance.

Best Regards
Asho Yeh

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-1-k7
Locale: LANG=zh_TW.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to zh_TW.UTF-8)

Versions of packages gpm depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]       1.4.30.11    Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils                 2.8.4        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: false
  gpm/sample_rate:
* gpm/type: imps2
* gpm/device: /dev/psaux
* gpm/restart_default: false