[Pkg-gpm-devel] Bug#326838: kernel 2.6.13 and /dev/gpmdata are not friends

[Ryan Underwood]

Package: gpm
Version: 1.19.6-21
Severity: important


Something seems to have gone wrong with /dev/gpmdata in 2.6.13 (upgrade
from 2.4).  GPM is using /dev/psaux and the mouse is a regular PS/2 with
ms3 repeat configured.  If I am at a Linux console and cat /dev/gpmdata,
no data appears when the mouse is moved, though the cursor on screen
does move.  Under X, I have the same.  However, if in an xterm, I
restart gpm, then the data appears on /dev/gpmdata for that moment.
Unfortunately, as soon as one switches to another VT and back to X, the
mouse data is no longer appearing there.  Restarting GPM has no effect
at the console for some reason.

Maybe something has changed with the mechanism GPM is using to determine
if mouse data should be delivered to the current application (i.e. if it
is on the current VT).  I don't know what's going on to be honest.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.13
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages gpm depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.4.57     Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils                   2.14.1     Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                         2.3.5-6    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  ucf                           2.001      Update Configuration File: preserv

gpm recommends no packages.

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