Package: consolation
Version: 0.0.1-1
Severity: important
Hi Bill,
Intrigued by Consolation as a possible GPM replacement, so I figured
I'd remove that and give it a shot. Upon installing it, I find that
the mouse cursor will extend to the full console height, but not the
full console width. It stops in column 64--a default maybe?
I have no idea what might be relevant here, so I'll give as much info
as I can on my console video setup.
I am using an Intel Atom D410 nettop here which works in Linux with
the i915 driver. You know, "works" for some version of the word
which may be defined as "slightly more effective at displaying video
than many doorstops".
The following line from my /etc/default/grub file may be relevant:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="video=VGA-1:1280x1024 video=LDVS-1:d quiet splash"
This line is possibly relevant because the content and order of these
arguments is significant. The "primary" display of this chipset is
LDVS-1, which does not even exist because this is a netbook machine.
Nonetheless Linux fixes this at 1024x768. It then sets VGA-1 to
mirror this limited resolution. It seems necessary to define VGA-1's
resolution first, then to disable LDVS-1 in order to make the VGA
display the primary one and then disable the useless dummy display.
I thought the issue might be that not all of my consoles share the
same font due to an interaction between console-setup and Plymouth
that causes tty1 not to have the appropriate font set until I do so
by hand, however restarting it after all windows used the same font
didn't resolve the issue.
BTW, copying a line works regardless of length, and the same for a
word that begins on or before column 64.
Happy to help debug this if you've got some stuff you'd like me to
try/log/trace. I'm using a basic mouse here and GPM works fine, but
GPM hasn't really kept pace with modern input devices since 1997. My
other mouse is an Apple Magic Trackpad, etc. ;)
Incidentally, I've removed gpm for testing consolation and will for
the time being remove consolation to restore gpm functionality. The
package indicates no need to do this, but it seems like a good idea.
If that's unnecessary, please let me know. Else I would suggest a
change to the manpage and control file.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages consolation depends on:
ii libc6 2.23-4
ii libevdev2 1.5.2+dfsg-1
ii libinput10 1.4.0-1
ii libudev1 230-7
consolation recommends no packages.
consolation suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
-- output of lsmod
Module Size Used by
nls_utf8 16384 0
nls_cp437 20480 0
vfat 20480 0
fat 69632 1 vfat
hid_generic 16384 0
cfg80211 573440 0
rfkill 24576 3 cfg80211
binfmt_misc 20480 1
iTCO_wdt 16384 0
iTCO_vendor_support 16384 1 iTCO_wdt
joydev 20480 0
r8712u 172032 0
coretemp 16384 0
sg 32768 0
i2c_i801 20480 0
pcspkr 16384 0
serio_raw 16384 0
snd_hda_codec_realtek 86016 1
snd_hda_codec_generic 69632 1 snd_hda_codec_realtek
snd_hda_intel 36864 4
snd_hda_codec 135168 3
snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_intel
snd_hda_core 81920 4
snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep 16384 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm 106496 3 snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_core
snd_timer 32768 1 snd_pcm
snd 81920 15
snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_pcm,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel
soundcore 16384 1 snd
evdev 24576 11
lpc_ich 24576 0
mfd_core 16384 1 lpc_ich
acpi_cpufreq 20480 0
tpm_tis 20480 0
tpm 45056 1 tpm_tis
processor 36864 1 acpi_cpufreq
sunrpc 331776 1
autofs4 40960 2
ext4 593920 2
ecb 16384 0
glue_helper 16384 0
lrw 16384 0
gf128mul 16384 1 lrw
ablk_helper 16384 0
cryptd 20480 1 ablk_helper
aes_x86_64 20480 0
crc16 16384 1 ext4
jbd2 106496 1 ext4
crc32c_generic 16384 0
mbcache 16384 3 ext4
hid_logitech_hidpp 28672 0
uas 24576 0
usb_storage 69632 1 uas
hid_logitech_dj 20480 0
hid_logitech 32768 0
ff_memless 16384 1 hid_logitech
usbhid 49152 0
hid 118784 7
hid_generic,hid_logitech,usbhid,hid_logitech_dj,hid_logitech_hidpp
sd_mod 45056 4
psmouse 126976 0
ahci 36864 3
e100 36864 0
libahci 32768 1 ahci
mii 16384 1 e100
libata 233472 2 ahci,libahci
scsi_mod 233472 5 sg,uas,usb_storage,libata,sd_mod
ehci_pci 16384 0
uhci_hcd 45056 0
ehci_hcd 77824 1 ehci_pci
usbcore 241664 7
uas,uhci_hcd,usb_storage,ehci_hcd,ehci_pci,r8712u,usbhid
usb_common 16384 1 usbcore
i915 1245184 4
fjes 28672 0
video 40960 1 i915
i2c_algo_bit 16384 1 i915
drm_kms_helper 147456 1 i915
drm 360448 6 i915,drm_kms_helper
button 16384 1 i915
