[Gpm] repeat and accel

[Nico Schottelius]

> > Who is going to fix it?
>
> I dropped the ball on this one because I am lame, but I'm officially tired
> of running a patched gpm, so it's time to submit what I did.  Having a
> maintainer is some incentive. :-)

I hope you are not the only one feels like that!

> The problem, to recall, is that sometimes the repeater functions are asked
> to repeat more bits of dx and dy motion than the protocol can represent.
> The result is erratic mouse movement (in the application using /dev/gpmdata)
> when you move the mouse sufficiently fast.  The discussion on this was in
> February or March (in case there is no archive, I can send it).

Could you please send a copy of it offlist to me ?
I will add it to my gpm mailfolder,  so I can track down, what changes are in
gpm
since 1.19.3.

> [long and good explanation]
> Patch against gpm-1.19.5 is below.

it's in 1.19.6.

Nico