[Pkg-gpm-devel] Bug#309396: gpm: mouse leaves black trails over console rendering it unreadable

[Matthew T. Atkinson]

Package: gpm
Version: 1.19.6-19
Severity: important

Hello,

I recently installed on my PowerBook G4 (5,4), using a framebuffer
console.  I find that the mouse pointer character is black (which makes
it hard to read) and when moved, the pointer leaves black charactesr all
over the screen, covering up the text that was underneath.

I have asked on debian-powerpc and not yet got a reply so am not sure
how many people are affected.  It could be all PPC users but as I have
not received any confirmation of this in the last 48 hours I thought I'd
not mark this as a grave bug, lest it hold up the impending release!

Please let me know if there is any other information I could provide.

best regards,


-- 
Matthew T. Atkinson <matthew@agrip.org.uk>

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages gpm depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]       1.4.30.13    Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils                 2.8.4        Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-21 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libncurses5                 5.4-4        Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  ucf                         1.17         Update Configuration File: preserv

-- debconf information:
  gpm/responsiveness:
  gpm/repeat_type: ms3
  gpm/append:
* gpm/restart: false
  gpm/sample_rate:
* gpm/device: /dev/psaux
* gpm/restart_default: false
* gpm/type: autops2