Bug#353818: causes mouse to freeze in X on upgrade

[Paul Wise]

Package: gpm
Version: 1.19.6-22
Severity: normal

I recently upgraded gpm (running debian sid), and was very annoyed when
my mouse froze in gnome/X. Simply switching to a console, moving the
mouse a bit till the cursor showed, then switching back to X fixed this,
but it is still annoying. Relevant configs:

/etc/gpm.conf:
device=/dev/ttyS1
responsiveness=
repeat_type=none
type=ms
append=''
sample_rate=

/etc/X11/xorg.conf:
...
Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Configured Mouse"
        Driver          "mouse"
        Option          "CorePointer"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/ttyS1"
        Option          "Protocol"              "Microsoft"
        Option          "Emulate3Buttons"       "true"
EndSection
...
Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier      "Default Layout"
        Screen          "Default Screen"
        InputDevice     "Generic Keyboard"
        InputDevice     "Configured Mouse"
EndSection

-- System Information:
Debian Release: unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-k7
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages gpm depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.4.70     Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils                   2.15.2     Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                         2.3.6-1    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  ucf                           2.005      Update Configuration File: preserv

gpm recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
* gpm/responsiveness:
* gpm/repeat_type: none
* gpm/append:
* gpm/restart: true
* gpm/sample_rate:
* gpm/type: ms
* gpm/device: /dev/ttyS1
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