[gpm]Fwd: my trackpoint and gpm

[Alessandro Rubini]

> From: Maxim Shevelev <maxik@maxik.spb.ru>
> To: rubini@prosa.it

I'm reposting your message to the gpm list. I'm not the maintainer
any more and I'm currently unable to devote minor time lapses to gpm.

Could you please tell what gpm version are you using and from what
sources? Each distribution usually changes the packages, so knowing
what exactly are you using may help.

/alessandro

Original message completely included:
> Hello.
> 
> I have a question about gpm usage with my IBM Thinkpad 560e, and this is
> my story.
> 
> I have recently bought my laptop and installed Debian GNU Linux on it.
> Right as I have done this, my trackpoint mouse was working fine with gpm as
> ps2 device with repeating type raw.
> 
> But several days ago I noticed that gpm could not start and puts the
> following mesages in the syslog:
> 
> Jan 26 00:16:01 lapa /usr/sbin/gpm[423]: PS/2 mouse failed init
> Jan 26 00:16:01 lapa /usr/sbin/gpm[423]: oops() invoked from gpm.c(1019)
> Jan 26 00:16:01 lapa /usr/sbin/gpm[423]: mouse initialization failed: Resource temporarily unavailable
> 
> I tried many times to get it working with different parameters and
> noticed that it could rarely start properly, but most of times gpm failed
> with above messages.
> 
> So I decided that my mouse was broken. Eventually yesterday I found out
> that there is a device driver called fups2 for BROKEN ps/2 mice.
> When I tried with this, my mouse got alive and gpm could start with no
> problem. Certanly this sounds very funny, but in fact nowadays this is
> the only way for me to start gpm on my box.
> 
> So I have questions to you as to a gpm developer. What is the differece
> between ps2 and fups2 and is my trackpoint really broken and needs to be
> repaired? Should I worry about it? I am asking it because first month I
> used it with ps2 device type and it was working fine. Could it have been
> caused of that I recently upgraded gpm package to the latest package
> version  1.19.6-9 ?
> 
> Thank you for attention and I am anxiously waiting for you answer.
> 
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