[Pkg-gpm-devel] Bug#301897: kernel 2.6.11: gpm stops working after a while

[Ricardo Javier Cardenes Medina]

Package: gpm
Version: 1.19.6-19
Severity: important

It seems that 2.6.11 does something wrong to gpm. I'm using it normally
in console and if I change from one VT to another (not an exact thing,
sometimes it happens quickly, then it works without problems for half a
minute of constant change), it ends stop working. I'm starting to
suspect that it's time bound, because it happens even if I don't change
VTs but I don't touch it for a while. It happens just the same if I'm on
X (I use gpm as a repeater, my conf. bellow).


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11
Locale: LANG=es_ES.ISO8859-15, LC_CTYPE=es_ES.ISO8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15) (ignored: LC_ALL set to es_ES.ISO8859-15)

Versions of packages gpm depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]       1.4.36       Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils                 2.4.1        Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libncurses5                 5.4-3        Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  ucf                         1.09         Update Configuration File: preserv

-- debconf information:
* gpm/responsiveness:
* gpm/repeat_type: ms3
* gpm/append:
* gpm/restart: true
* gpm/sample_rate:
* gpm/type: autops2
* gpm/device: /dev/input/mice
* gpm/restart_default: false