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From: "Jared H. Hudson" <jhhudso@××××××××××.com>
To: "Miguel S. Filipe" <m3thos@×××××××.pt>
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 17:05:13
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.44.0204091704360.27932-100000@volumehost.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Problems with gpm, allready asked for help, but no response by "Miguel S. Filipe"
1 Are you using a module for ps2 support in the kernel?
2
3 -Jared H.
4
5 On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Miguel S. Filipe wrote:
6
7 > I'm sending this to both ML, because I allready asked for help on IRC
8 > and gentoo-user, but nobody could solve the problem.
9 >
10 > Problem:
11 >
12 > While booting up gpm gives me some errors and sets some wrong
13 > protocol, conclusion: mouse get unusable!
14 > This is particulary boring because X listens to a gpm mouse repeater.
15 >
16 > If I logon and do: /etc/init.d/gpm restart
17 > mouse gets configuredly correctly, and now I can go to X and login.
18 >
19 > So, why is gpm at boot up being wrongly configured if the
20 > /etc/conf.d/gpm seems to be OK, since we can configure the mouse
21 > correctly with "/etc/init.d/gpm restart"
22 >
23 > Can anyone help me out?
24 > Is this a bug?
25 > Is this gpm error/fault, boot alignment/sequence error/fault, kernel
26 > setup error/fault, gentoo error/fault?
27 >
28 > here are the settings in /etc/conf.d/gpm and the error outputed by gpm
29 > at boot time:
30 >
31 > * Starting
32 > gpm... [ ok ]===
33 > ERROR ===:
34 > [/var/tmp/portage/gpm-1.20.0-r1/work/gpm-1.20.0/src/mice.c(1740)]:
35 > imps2: PS/2 mouse failed to read id, assuming standard PS/2
36 > === ERROR ===:
37 > [/var/tmp/portage/gpm-1.20.0-r1/work/gpm-1.20.0/src/mice.c(1740)]:
38 > imps2: PS/2 mouse failed to read id, assuming standard PS/2
39 > === ERROR ===:
40 > [/var/tmp/portage/gpm-1.20.0-r1/work/gpm-1.20.0/src/mice.c(1746)]:
41 > imps2: PS/2 mouse failed setup, continuing...
42 > === ERROR ===:
43 > [/var/tmp/portage/gpm-1.20.0-r1/work/gpm-1.20.0/src/mice.c(1746)]:
44 > imps2: PS/2 mouse failed setup, continuing...
45 >
46 > --- /etc/conf.d/gpm ---
47 > # Config file for /etc/init.d/gpm
48 >
49 > # The type of mouse you have and the device it is connected to
50 >
51 > MOUSE=imps2
52 > MOUSEDEV=/dev/mouse
53 >
54 >
55 > # Extra settings
56 >
57 > REPEAT_TYPE=imps2
58 > #RESPONSIVENESS=
59 > #APPEND="-g 1 -A 60"
60 > --cut--
61 >
62 > Thanks in Advance
63 >
64 > Miguel Sousa Filipe
65 > handle: m3thos
66 > More human than human
67 > (PORTUGAL)
68 >
69 > _______________________________________________
70 > gentoo-user mailing list
71 > gentoo-user@g.o
72 > http://lists.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-user
73 >
74
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[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with gpm, allready asked for help, but no response "Miguel S. Filipe" <m3thos@×××××××.pt>