[Pkg-gpm-devel] Bug#289987: wrong device setting when installing gpm

Peter Samuelson Peter Samuelson <peter@p12n.org>, 289987@bugs.debian.org
Thu, 13 Jan 2005 21:36:31 -0600


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[Asho Yeh]
> I upgraded a new version of gpm in testing and my mice is an USB type.
[...]
> I entered the "/dev/input/mice".
[...]
> I re-checked the /etc/gpm.conf and found out the device part still had
> the value: /dev/psaux which wasn't I typed.
>=20
> However, the second round for "dpkg-reconfigure gpm" successfully
> modified the /etc/gpm.conf.=20

OK, that's very weird.  Do you still have a copy of your original
gpm.conf file, that I can use to try to reproduce this?

> -- debconf information:
[...]
> * gpm/type: imps2
> * gpm/device: /dev/psaux

I see debconf still thinks your mouse is at /dev/psaux even after you
did the dpkg-reconfigure.  This confuses the situation even further.

Thanks for the report,
Peter

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