Package: kernel-image-2.6.9-powerpc Version: 2.6.9-3 Severity: normal Hello,
I just tried upgrading from kernel 2.6.8 to 2.6.9, and found a strange behavior in the gpm cursor. The cursor is now invisible, and when moving it around the console, all text it passes over disappears (turns black, like the console background color). If the mouse button is pressed, the cursor becomes visible (white) while the button is held down. This behavior was also noticed by someone else, as the last item in this message: http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2004/12/msg00494.html The mouse cursor behaves normally in X (which is reading from the /dev/gpmdata repeater). I have changed nothing in my system configuration, only booted into 2.6.9 instead of 2.6.8. I have an iBook G3 700 MHz (dual USB, white). I'm running udev 0.050-2 if that makes any difference. lsmod under 2.6.9 outputs the following: Module Size Used by ipv6 320648 10 tsdev 9024 0 ohci_hcd 26436 0 usbcore 143412 3 ohci_hcd ohci1394 42116 0 ieee1394 448424 1 ohci1394 ide_cd 49700 0 cdrom 49980 1 ide_cd tun 11552 0 evdev 11904 2 apm_emu 8204 2 dmasound_pmac 94820 1 dmasound_core 22096 2 dmasound_pmac soundcore 11780 2 dmasound_core radeon 158520 2 uninorth_agp 8480 1 agpgart 42508 2 uninorth_agp sungem 39844 0 crc32 4608 1 sungem sungem_phy 10048 1 sungem ext3 141008 2 jbd 71960 1 ext3 mbcache 10052 1 ext3 ide_disk 28768 4 unix 32216 450 And here are the contents of my /etc/gpm.conf: # [uninteresting comments deleted to save space] device=/dev/psaux responsiveness= repeat_type=ms3 type=autops2 append='' sample_rate= -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: powerpc (ppc) Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-powerpc Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages kernel-image-2.6.9-powerpc depends on: ii initrd-tools 0.1.74 tools to create initrd image for p ii module-init-tools 3.1-rel-2 tools for managing Linux kernel mo -- no debconf information regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/ Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544
