[gpm]Re: gpm 1.19.5

[Zephaniah E. Hull]

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On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 10:09:43PM +0200, Nico Schottelius wrote:
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> gpm -t synps2 ... -> works fine.
> gpm -t ps2 ... (after the synps2) or
> startx  -> both times the mouse is screwed up.
> It's the same thing when I first start windows
> (where synps2 seems to be used) and then start Linux,
> it's the same behaviour. It seems like after an imps2
> or synps2 initialization the mouse device will not work
> ps2 anymore.  The question now is, who's fault is it ?
> Should ps2 init it another way or should the synps2/imps2
> close the device another way ?
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> I will need some time to go through synps2 and ps2
> doc.

Actually, I have the PS/2 init sequence for resetting it to the default
protocol in the Debian patches, which I'm going to need to update to the
current gpm tree and submit.

The problem however is that there are a /LOT/ of PS/2 mice which don't
give a damn about the protocol and react very very poorly to much in the
way of an init sequence.

I ended up creating the fups2 and fuimps2 protocol types to deal with
that. (Expand fu to whatever you want to, even the worse case fits
perfectly.)

FWIW, I'm quite glad to find that gpm has an upstream once more.

Zephaniah E. Hull.
Debian gpm maintainer.
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> > When I start X, gpm start
> > working nicely, and everytime
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> So at you X seems to re-init the mouse fine.
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> > I restart it and trying to reproduce the bug, no way to do it,
> > everything ok.
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> Can you report more informations ?
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> - exactly what you did (command lines) and what happened
> - what protocol you use in X
> - what mouse
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> Nico
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> p.s.: I will be away until Saturday afternoon, so until then I can't
> answer mails.
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It's also your right to f*ck up your own version of Linux, but you're
not getting close to mine.

                Linus

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