Re: mouse hangs under X on Savage/MX
Hi I did the same, I spoke with folk who wrote HOWTO to my Toshiba
Satelite Pro 4300 he is using Red Hat, and that was his sugestion
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> Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 21:02:52 -0500
> From: Roger Shaffer Jr . <rashaffer@sprintmail.com>
> To: Todd Weaver <todd@m2n.com>
> Cc: Storm Linux User <rseddon@storm>, Radu Muschevici <grinsefisch@gmx.ch>,
> debian-laptop@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: mouse hangs under X on Savage/MX
> Resent-Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 03:02:51 +0100
> Resent-From: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org
>
> Strangely enough, I ran into the same problem on my laptop, but the
> solution was to uninstall gpm. Probably just my own laziness, but I
> couldn't get a configuration of gpm and X that wouldn't have mouse
> problems, but removing gpm from the equation fixed it right up.
>
> Rog
>
>
> On Mon, 07 May 2001 19:02:54 Todd Weaver wrote:
> > On Mon, 7 May 2001, Storm Linux User wrote:
> > > > Very often, the mouse pointer just freezes while moving.
> > > > Unfreezing is possible by opening a new window (via keyboard
> > shortcut),
> > > > but it is very anoying and makes working under X impossible.
> > > >
> > > > I wonder if this is a known issue and has somebody a suggestion how
> > > > to get rid of this?
> > > >
> > > > this is my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 :
> > > >
> > > > Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Configured Mouse"
> > > > Driver "mouse"
> > > > Option "CorePointer"
> > > > Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
> > > > Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
> > > > Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
> > > > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> > > > EndSection
> >
> > This is what I use:
> >
> > Section "InputDevice"
> > Identifier "Mouse"
> > Driver "mouse"
> > Option "CorePointer"
> > Option "Device" "/dev/gpmdata"
> > Option "Protocol" "IntelliMouse"
> > Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
> > EndSection
> >
> > using gpm of course. (apt-get install gpm)
> >
> > With the default gpm.conf...
> >
> > # /etc/gpm.conf - configuration file for gpm(1)
> > #
> > # If mouse response seems to be to slow, try using
> > # responsiveness=15. append can contain any random arguments to be
> > # appended to the commandline.
> > #
> > # If you edit this file by hand, please be aware it is sourced by
> > # /etc/init.d/gpm and thus all shell meta characters must be
> > # protected from evaluation (i.e. by quoting them).
> > #
> > # This file is used by /etc/init.d/gpm and can be modified by
> > # /usr/sbin/gpmconfig.
> > #
> > device=/dev/psaux
> > responsiveness=
> > repeat_type=ms3
> > type=ps2
> > append=""
> > sample_rate=
> >
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