Re: Mouse

[Michael Westwind <m_westwind@yahoo.com>]

The touchpad on my Sony wouldn't work in X until I put a command to turn gpm 
off in .xinitrc.  No trouble after that.  No idea if that applies to your 
case.

regards
MW

On Wednesday 05 March 2003 12:18, Robert wrote:
> I'm having trouble getting the touchpad on my laptop to work under
> debian woody
> My laptop is a Gateway Solo 1200, and it has a synaptic
>
> when i used dpkg-reconfigure on xserver-xfree86 and set it up as a
> default ps/2 mouse, the cursor only moved about in about a 640 x 480
> section of the screen (im running in 800 x 600 mode), and the actual
> selection point of the mouse is several inches off from where the cursor
> is (i.e. when i move as far over to the bottom right as i can i can
> click on the bottom right part of the screen, even though the cursor is
> not there)
> when i set it to GlidePoint, the cursor was still bounded to the small
> box, but it moved very very slowly about
>
> then i tried using gpm to run my mouse, and so i set it to its default
> settings and the cursor only moved left and right and clicked randomly
> when i moved around
> so i tried configuring it to be specifically like my mouse (the
> synaptics settings, i tried both) and the mouse didnt respond at all
>
> what do you suggest?
>
> Robert