Messages in this thread | | | From | (Philippe Strauss) | Subject | Re: 2.1.8 mouse (serial?) wierdness | Date | Tue, 12 Nov 1996 15:09:02 +0100 (MET) |
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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.
> > -- > Erik B. Andersen Web: http://www.et.byu.edu/~andersee/ > 2485 South State St. email: andersee@et.byu.edu or andersee@debian.org > Springville, Ut 84663 phone: (801) 489-1231 > --This message was written using 73% post-consumer electrons-- >
-- Philippe Strauss, CH-1092 Belmont
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