[gpm]Re: gpm 1.19.5

[Nico Schottelius]

Once again I can understand Alessandro very well...


> <snip>
> <snap>
> 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.

Okay, we'll wait for it.

> 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.

What do they do ? Don't react at all or act wrong ?

> 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.)

Just sent it.

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

I am happy you are glad.

> Zephaniah E. Hull.
> Debian gpm maintainer.

???
Where's the difference between gpm and gpm ?
Alessandro, I can understand you much better know again...
I am happy that you help to improve gpm, but why do you need
a gpm-debian maintainer ? Maybe there was a need to have several
gpm-suse, gpm-redhat, gpm-tomatoketchup maintainers when gpm
was unmaintained, but at least now all work should go into one main
release: gpm.

I am a person and programmer who hates to write code two times
and what's going on here is people are doing work more than two times.

Zephaniah, please let us merge the different versions. Provide
your patches and I will apply them.


Nico

- happy that there are many people involved in improving gpm
- unhappy that there are different versions of gpm out there


> > > When I start X, gpm start
> > > working nicely, and everytime
> >
> > So at you X seems to re-init the mouse fine.
> >
> > > I restart it and trying to reproduce the bug, no way to do it,
> > > everything ok.
> >
> > Can you report more informations ?
> >
> > - exactly what you did (command lines) and what happened
> > - what protocol you use in X
> > - what mouse
> >
> > Nico
> >
> > p.s.: I will be away until Saturday afternoon, so until then I can't
> > answer mails.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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