-- Erik B. Andersen Web: http://www.et.byu.edu/~andersee/ 2485 South State St. email: andersee@et.byu.edu or andersee@debian.org Springville, Ut 84663 phone: (801) 489-1231 --This message was written using 73% post-consumer electrons--
Philippe Strauss wrote: > > Erik B. Andersen wrote: > > > > Kernel 2.1.8 causes my serial mouse pointer to jump erratically both in > > console mode (using gpm) and in X. The behavior is identical whether the > > serial driver is compiled as a module, or compiled directly into the > > kernel. Reverting to 2.1.7 or 2.0.25 fixes the problem. (Nothing but the > > kernel was changed). I have not taken a look at the changes made in > > patch-2.1.8 to drivers/char/serial.c but I suspect that there is a problem > > in there somewhere. My 33.6 modem is able to connect to the net (or you > > wouldn't be reading this), but throughput seems erratic as well. Anybody > > else experience this? > > -Erik > > Yes, me. It seems caused by gpm. Try do comment out gpm from you startup file, > reboot and startx. > Upgrading to gpm 1.10 didn't solve the problem. >