[Pkg-gpm-devel] Bug#219974: gpm doesn't copy text properly, and paste fails due to this

[simon raven]

Package: gpm
Version: 1.19.6-21
Followup-For: Bug #219974


hi,

machine is a g3 upgraded power tower pro (mac clone), running 2.6.13
(home brew), with framebuffer enabled, on an old ati mach64 card.

for some strange reason, ever since the last (?; could be the one
previous) revision of gpm it doesn't copy things very well, and thus i
can't paste what i've selected. it fails without fail.

what i do is what i've always done: select with left mouse button, and
paste with middle, and i always get some random crap instead of what i
selected.

this happens when i have a console open, trying to paste into a vim
window or other thing. 
it doesn't do this when i'm doing it from/to a screen window. this works
fine.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (1000, 'unstable'), (998, 'experimental')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.13-pylon
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages gpm depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.4.58     Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils                   2.14.3     Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                         2.3.5-6    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  ucf                           2.001      Update Configuration File: preserv

gpm recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
* gpm/repeat_type:
* gpm/append: -B 321
  gpm/gpmconfig_fix: true
* gpm/device: /dev/input/mice
* gpm/responsiveness: 15
* gpm/restart: true
* gpm/sample_rate:
* gpm/type: autops2
* gpm/restart_default: false