Re: Faketty + gpm weirdness

[vinu <vi...@hc...>]

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I realize this is not a hot priority, but I have
>repeatedly had the following:
>
>In a recent kernel (2.6.14/15) gpm (General Purpose
>Mouse Interface) will act weird: the mouse cursor does
>not show in a text console (not X), but a line copied
>with gpm copy/paste will appear, *and* in mc lines are
>selected wherever the mouse cursor moves.
>
>I only say "Faketty" in the subject line because that
>is the multi-user setup that I am running with Debian
>stable and nVidia closed source driver.
>
>I guess it will not happen if you don't copy/paste
>with gpm. But that is just what gpm is handy for.
>
>Nothing fixes it: restarting gpm resumes in this
>behavior. Logging out changes nothing.
>
>Hugo
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>Hugo
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there's a possibility that the mouse configuration may go wrong. In the=20
case of some 3 buttn wheel mouse this problem is observerd. the simplest=20
to disable this is reconfigure gpm, as 3 button mouse only. Or 2 btn=20
mouse + emulate 3 buttons.
regards
vineesh