Bug#378590: gpm: GPM init.d script should modprobe mousedev in case no mouse is plugged in.

[Tim Phipps]

Package: gpm
Version: 1.19.6-22
Severity: normal

I've got /dev/input/mice as my GPM mouse device (I think it was the default)
and I'm using udev. If a mouse isn't plugged in udev does not load the
mousedev driver at boot (which is probably correct) and so there is no
/dev/input/mice for gpm to open. A "modprobe -q mousedev" in the initscript
if the device is /dev/input/mice would fix this nicely (probably just before
the loop marked "# HACK" that waits for $device to appear).


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages gpm depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.2      Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils                   2.16.2     Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                         2.3.6-15   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  ucf                           2.0012     Update Configuration File: preserv

gpm recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
* gpm/responsiveness:
* gpm/repeat_type: none
* gpm/append:
  gpm/restart: false
* gpm/sample_rate:
* gpm/type: exps2
* gpm/device: /dev/input/mice