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From: "Miguel S. Filipe" <m3thos@×××××××.pt>
To: "Jared H. Hudson" <jhhudso@××××××××××.com>
Cc: gentoo-dev@g.o, gentoo-user@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with gpm, allready asked for help, but no response
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 17:45:59
Message-Id: 3CB367A1.7030402@netcabo.pt
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with gpm, allready asked for help, but no response by "Jared H. Hudson"
1 Jared H. Hudson wrote:
2
3 >Are you using a module for ps2 support in the kernel?
4 >
5 >-Jared H.
6 >
7 No. just checked it with lsmod
8
9 >
10 >
11 >On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Miguel S. Filipe wrote:
12 >
13 >>I'm sending this to both ML, because I allready asked for help on IRC
14 >>and gentoo-user, but nobody could solve the problem.
15 >>
16 >>Problem:
17 >>
18 >> While booting up gpm gives me some errors and sets some wrong
19 >>protocol, conclusion: mouse get unusable!
20 >>This is particulary boring because X listens to a gpm mouse repeater.
21 >>
22 >>If I logon and do: /etc/init.d/gpm restart
23 >>mouse gets configuredly correctly, and now I can go to X and login.
24 >>
25 >>So, why is gpm at boot up being wrongly configured if the
26 >>/etc/conf.d/gpm seems to be OK, since we can configure the mouse
27 >>correctly with "/etc/init.d/gpm restart"
28 >>
29 >>Can anyone help me out?
30 >> Is this a bug?
31 >> Is this gpm error/fault, boot alignment/sequence error/fault, kernel
32 >>setup error/fault, gentoo error/fault?
33 >>
34 >>here are the settings in /etc/conf.d/gpm and the error outputed by gpm
35 >>at boot time:
36 >>
37 >> * Starting
38 >>gpm... [ ok ]===
39 >>ERROR ===:
40 >>[/var/tmp/portage/gpm-1.20.0-r1/work/gpm-1.20.0/src/mice.c(1740)]:
41 >>imps2: PS/2 mouse failed to read id, assuming standard PS/2
42 >>=== ERROR ===:
43 >>[/var/tmp/portage/gpm-1.20.0-r1/work/gpm-1.20.0/src/mice.c(1740)]:
44 >>imps2: PS/2 mouse failed to read id, assuming standard PS/2
45 >>=== ERROR ===:
46 >>[/var/tmp/portage/gpm-1.20.0-r1/work/gpm-1.20.0/src/mice.c(1746)]:
47 >>imps2: PS/2 mouse failed setup, continuing...
48 >>=== ERROR ===:
49 >>[/var/tmp/portage/gpm-1.20.0-r1/work/gpm-1.20.0/src/mice.c(1746)]:
50 >>imps2: PS/2 mouse failed setup, continuing...
51 >>
52 >>--- /etc/conf.d/gpm ---
53 >># Config file for /etc/init.d/gpm
54 >>
55 >># The type of mouse you have and the device it is connected to
56 >>
57 >>MOUSE=imps2
58 >>MOUSEDEV=/dev/mouse
59 >>
60 >>
61 >># Extra settings
62 >>
63 >>REPEAT_TYPE=imps2
64 >>#RESPONSIVENESS=
65 >>#APPEND="-g 1 -A 60"
66 >>--cut--
67 >>
68 >>Thanks in Advance
69 >>
70 >>Miguel Sousa Filipe
71 >>handle: m3thos
72 >>More human than human
73 >>(PORTUGAL)
74 >>
75 >>_______________________________________________
76 >>gentoo-user mailing list
77 >>gentoo-user@g.o
78 >>http://lists.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-user
79 >>

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