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SubjectRe: 2.1.8 mouse (serial?) wierdness
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Erik B. Andersen wrote:
>
> Kernel 2.1.8 causes my serial mouse pointer to jump erratically both in
> console mode (using gpm) and in X. The behavior is identical whether the
> serial driver is compiled as a module, or compiled directly into the
> kernel. Reverting to 2.1.7 or 2.0.25 fixes the problem. (Nothing but the
> kernel was changed). I have not taken a look at the changes made in
> patch-2.1.8 to drivers/char/serial.c but I suspect that there is a problem
> in there somewhere. My 33.6 modem is able to connect to the net (or you
> wouldn't be reading this), but throughput seems erratic as well. Anybody
> else experience this?
> -Erik

Yes, me. It seems caused by gpm. Try do comment out gpm from you startup file,
reboot and startx.
Upgrading to gpm 1.10 didn't solve the problem.

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