[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with gpm, allready asked for help, but no response

From: "Miguel S. Filipe" <m3thos@netcabo.pt>
To: "Jared H. Hudson" <jhhudso@volumehost.com>
Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org, gentoo-user@gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with gpm, allready asked for help, but no response
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 23:13:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CB367A1.7030402@netcabo.pt> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.44.0204091704360.27932-100000@volumehost.com

Jared H. Hudson wrote:

>Are you using a module for ps2 support in the kernel?
>
>-Jared H.
>
No. just checked it with lsmod

>
>
>On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Miguel S. Filipe wrote:
>
>>I'm sending this to both ML, because I allready asked for help on IRC 
>>and gentoo-user, but nobody could solve the problem.
>>
>>Problem:
>>
>>    While booting up gpm gives me some errors and sets some wrong 
>>protocol, conclusion: mouse get unusable!
>>This is particulary boring because X listens to a gpm mouse repeater.
>>
>>If I logon and do: /etc/init.d/gpm restart
>>mouse gets configuredly correctly, and now I can go to X and login.
>>
>>So, why is gpm at boot up being wrongly configured if the 
>>/etc/conf.d/gpm seems to be OK, since we can configure the mouse 
>>correctly with "/etc/init.d/gpm restart"
>>
>>Can anyone help me out?
>> Is this a bug?
>> Is this gpm error/fault, boot alignment/sequence error/fault, kernel 
>>setup error/fault, gentoo error/fault?
>>
>>here are the settings in /etc/conf.d/gpm and the error outputed by gpm 
>>at boot time:
>>
>> * Starting 
>>gpm...                                                        [ ok ]=== 
>>ERROR ===: 
>>[/var/tmp/portage/gpm-1.20.0-r1/work/gpm-1.20.0/src/mice.c(1740)]:
>>imps2: PS/2 mouse failed to read id, assuming standard PS/2
>>=== ERROR ===: 
>>[/var/tmp/portage/gpm-1.20.0-r1/work/gpm-1.20.0/src/mice.c(1740)]:
>>imps2: PS/2 mouse failed to read id, assuming standard PS/2
>>=== ERROR ===: 
>>[/var/tmp/portage/gpm-1.20.0-r1/work/gpm-1.20.0/src/mice.c(1746)]:
>>imps2: PS/2 mouse failed setup, continuing...
>>=== ERROR ===: 
>>[/var/tmp/portage/gpm-1.20.0-r1/work/gpm-1.20.0/src/mice.c(1746)]:
>>imps2: PS/2 mouse failed setup, continuing...
>>
>>--- /etc/conf.d/gpm ---
>># Config file for /etc/init.d/gpm
>>
>># The type of mouse you have and the device it is connected to
>>
>>MOUSE=imps2
>>MOUSEDEV=/dev/mouse
>>
>>
>># Extra settings
>>
>>REPEAT_TYPE=imps2
>>#RESPONSIVENESS=
>>#APPEND="-g 1 -A 60"
>>--cut--
>>
>>Thanks in Advance
>>
>>Miguel Sousa Filipe
>>handle: m3thos
>>More human than human
>>(PORTUGAL)
>>
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