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

[Asho Yeh]

Hi Peter
> 
> [Asho Yeh]
> > I upgraded a new version of gpm in testing and my mice is an USB type.
> [...]
> > I entered the "/dev/input/mice".
> [...]
> > 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. 
> 
sorry for the delay report. My old gpm.conf is liked this:

#  /etc/gpm.conf - configuration file for gpm(1)
#
#  If mouse response seems to be to slow, try using
#  responsiveness=15. append can contain any random arguments to be
#  appended to the commandline.
#
#  If you edit this file by hand, please be aware it is sourced by
#  /etc/init.d/gpm and thus all shell meta characters must be
#  protected from evaluation (i.e. by quoting them).
#
#  This file is used by /etc/init.d/gpm and can be modified by
#  /usr/sbin/gpmconfig.
#
device=/dev/input/mice
responsiveness=
repeat_type=ms3
type=imps2
append=""
sample_rate=

> OK, that's very weird.  Do you still have a copy of your original
> gpm.conf file, that I can use to try to reproduce this?
> 
> > -- debconf information:
> [...]
> > * gpm/type: imps2
> > * gpm/device: /dev/psaux
> 
> I see debconf still thinks your mouse is at /dev/psaux even after you
> did the dpkg-reconfigure.  This confuses the situation even further.
> 
hmm....that's weird. I did plugged a ps/2 mouse(an Logitech USB optical with usb2ps2 adapter) in the old time without reconfigure the gpm, because the old gpmconfig (text prompt) won't succeed with my ps/2 mouse.

After a mean time, I used the mouse with the adapter and the new gpmconfig still couldn't succeed. I did purged the gpm before retried the new gpm.

Thanks for your help :-)
Asho.