[gpm]gpm 1.20.1-cvs bug

[Xiong Quanren]

On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Peter Berg Larsen wrote:

> On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Xiong Quanren wrote:
> 
> 
> > Check out the newest cvs snapshot of gpm. find following bugs:
> > 1) when starts gpm with "-t synps2", it could not find the gpm-syn.conf
> > configuration file.
> 
> Yes. The previous behavior was not to report a warning when the conf file
> wasnt found, which lead to editing the file you thought gpm read, and
> reported that this or that option didnt worked.
Sorry. I was not very clear about this. The /usr/etc/gpm-syn.conf was
there. it just could not find it. After looking the source, I found the
config.h file had a line like "#define SYSCONFDIR "${prefix}/etc" ". Looks
like there is bug in the ./configure script.
> 
> > 2) After fixing previous bug by myself, when using the conf/gpm-syn.conf
> > in the package as my configuration file, it complained about 10 parameter
> > values are invalid. 
> 
> Are you sure it complained about values, and not option names? This would
> happen if you used an old 1.19.6 conf file. If it is not so, I would
> like to know which ones it complained about.
> 
> 
> > 3) After deleting these entrie in gpm-syn.conf mentioned in 2), the edge
> > scolling feature did not work for me. It should since the default is
> > enabling this feature.
> 
> I can think of two reasons for this:
> 
> a) You dont use a repeater that repeats scrolling info. (if you are
> using X).
Do you mean the -R option? I start gpm with "gpm -m /dev/mouse -t synps2
-R".
> 
> b) Even though all touchpad should be alike, some have their absolute
> values shifted, which means that the default settings for edges could be
> off. So try and test whether gpm actually detects the edges. This can be
> done by checking that corneractions works.
The corneractions worked for me. Tapping the lower right I got a right
mouse click. After applying Petr Mladek's patch original gpm-syn.conf
worked fine(Thanks, Mr. Petr Mladek), which means I explicitly enabled the
edge scrolling feature. But the edge scrolling just did not work. I tried
in Mozilla and Gimp.

Thanks,
Xiong
> 
> 
> Peter
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> Real name:    Peter Berg Larsen 
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