Bug 23039 – GPM wheel repeater doesn't work in 1.20.1

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Arnaud Launay 2003-06-18 04:40:54 UTC]

The GPM wheel repeater under X doesn't work using 1.20.1, hence it works using
1.20.0-r6.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge /usr/portage/sys-libs/gpm/gpm-1.20.1.ebuild
2. /etc/init.d/gpm restart
3. try using wheel for example under firebird

Actual Results:  
the screen doesn't scroll.

Expected Results:  
the screen should have scroll, and scroll when using 1.20.0-r6 without changing
anything (but as required by etc-update, gpm/gpm-syn.conf

XF86Config:
Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Mouse1"
        Driver  "mouse"
        Option "Protocol"       "IMPS/2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" 
EndSection

conf.d/gpm:
MOUSE=imps2
MOUSEDEV=/dev/psaux
REPEAT_TYPE=imps2

[Comment 1 Arnaud Launay 2003-06-18 04:44:17 UTC]

Section InputDevice of XF86Config is of course missing the line
Option "Device"   "/dev/gpmdata"
which is present in XF86Config.

[Comment 2 Michael M Nazaroff (RETIRED) 2003-06-29 06:32:42 UTC]

Have you tried to use "REPEAT_TYPE=raw" ?? instead of imps2 for your gpm driver.. it seems to be a problem in the imps2 gpm driver, but using raw works fine for me.  I'm looking around for patch to fix the driver but haven't found anything yet.

Naz

[Comment 3 Arnaud Launay 2003-06-30 00:42:31 UTC]

I confirm it works using raw for repeat type. It works as a workaround (and is of course sufficient for my needs). If you need me for more tests, just speak.

[Comment 4 Michael M Nazaroff (RETIRED) 2003-07-01 02:15:27 UTC]

I'm going to drop the Severity of this bug since there is a workaround now.

[Comment 5 Michael M Nazaroff (RETIRED) 2004-01-03 22:43:28 UTC]

I think doubling drivers will always cause problems actually.  Xfree needs straight data from the mouse not interpeted data from gpm

[Comment 6 Markus Nigbur (RETIRED) 2004-07-03 06:37:49 UTC]

gpm is for console and not for x anyway.