there is famous problem with gpm and some text applications. for example, if we run midnight commander under text console (often without frame buffer) there is error messages about problem with liblow.c.
i have found solution which "works for me" (tm). if i understand right,
there is problem with structure where transmit ID of owner console in
function Gpm_GetEvent().
strace say:
read(5, "", 24) = 0
^^
write(2, "info: [/home/snailtalk/RPM/BUILD/gpm-1.20.0/src/liblow.c(446)]:\n", 64) = 64
my packages with modified (paths in diff) patch is located here:
http://c0re.phuture.sk/packages/gpm
maybe this is candidate to updates, because i see many question about
this problem in mailing lists about linux located here.
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