Matt Brubeck wrote:
If you have gpm running, it may be interfering with the X server. Try stopping gpm and then running X.
That did it! Mouse then behaved perfectly.
I changed the relevant line in /etc/gpm.conf to read 'repeat_type=raw' - correct? and made the change to /dev/mouse. However, after rebooting, the mouse was frozen again, and even killing gpm made no difference.If this is the problem, you can solve it by telling gpm to repeat with type "raw" (in /etc/gpm.conf) and making /dev/mouse a link to /dev/gpmdata.
Alternately, you can run a recent kernel with the new input layer. Then your mouse device will be /dev/input/mice, and it will work with both gpm and X at the same time.
If possible, I really don't want to get into any major tinkering at this stage - just need to get things running! But is there somewhere to read up on the new input layer? I saw a suggested link to Ben H's site but it seems to be down at the moment.
Meanwhile, any further comments would be welcome - and many thanks for the help so far. Apologies if I'm being a bit obtuse here. I barely knew of the existence of gpm before this!
Tim