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Re: Mouse doesn't work right in X



Sencond this, check whether your gpm is in repeater mode or not. Also check
Mouse protocal, most laptop use PS/2.

Once upon a time, I heard Benjamin Tyger Sunshine-Hill say

> On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Morgan Terry wrote:
> 
> > I have potato installed on my laptop, with X (version 3.3.6, i think),
> > and have everything set up for my display, but when I start X & move my
> > mouse, the cursor goes right to the bottom of the screen (well, off the
> > screen, actually) and apparently it thinks i'm clicking the mouse
> > buttons too since the WindowMaker menus pop up.  I can't get the cursor
> > to work normally.  It just stays off the screen.  I can move side to
> > side, but that doesn't really help much :-)  Any help would be greatly
> > appreciated.  Thanks
> 
> It's hard to help you out with no knowledge of what laptop or what mouse
> you have; however, it sounds like you're using an ikncorrect protocol. I
> can't recall the proper method for detecting mouse hardware under X, but
> gpmconfig out of X should give you a pretty good idcea of what you're up
> against.
> 
> Ben
> 
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