Debian Bug report logs - #493008
gpm: No longer works with kernel 2.6.25 (ppc at least)

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Helge Kreutzmann <debian@helgefjell.de>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: gpm: No longer works with kernel 2.6.25 (ppc at least)

Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:29:38 +0200

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Package: gpm
Version: 1.20.3~pre3-3
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Up to kernel 2.6.24 gpm behaves as expected. After an upgrade to
2.6.25 there is no longer a mouse cursor, but when issuing
/etc/init.d/gpm restart
no error message is printed. In /var/log/messages I also see "Started
gpm successfully. Entered daemon mode". But the mouse is not visible,
nothing happens when I press the button(s).

Downgrading (rebooting) into kernel <= 2.6.24 resolves the problem.

Please tell me which other information you need and I'll gladly
provide it.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-powerpc
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gpm depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]      1.5.22        Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils                2.30          Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                      2.7-10        GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgpmg1                   1.20.3~pre3-3 General Purpose Mouse - shared lib
ii  lsb-base                   3.2-12        Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  ucf                        3.007         Update Configuration File: preserv

gpm recommends no packages.

gpm suggests no packages.

-- debconf information:
* gpm/responsiveness:
* gpm/repeat_type: none
* gpm/append:
* gpm/restart: false
* gpm/sample_rate:
* gpm/device: /dev/input/mice
* gpm/type: exps2
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Message #10 received at 493008-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Helge Kreutzmann <debian@helgefjell.de>

To: 493008-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Solved in 2.6.26

Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 08:33:11 +0200

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Hello,
since there was no activity and a new kernel version (2.6.26) was out,
I retried using gpm under that kernel version and it seems to work
(only tried it briefly, but in 2.6.25 the failure was imminent). Hence
closing. Not using version information, since it was not closed by
changes in gpm but in the kernel.

Greetings

                Helge
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      Dr. Helge Kreutzmann                     debian@helgefjell.de
           Dipl.-Phys.                   http://www.helgefjell.de/debian.php
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