Re: acer 630 weird mouse behavior & keyboard freeze
On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Giuseppe Ciotta wrote:
> Ivar Alm writes:
>
> > At 17:54 2003-01-27, Giuseppe Ciotta wrote:
> >> hi! i have an acer 630 laptop, using it, sometimes (today happened 4
> >> times) the mouse cursor do weird movements on the screen and the keyboard
> >> is unusable, the only solution is to kill XFree and restart it, and i
> >> lost all of my unsaved work :(
> >> what could it be ?
> >> i use a 2.4.21-pre3 + acpi kernel (but i had the same problem with 2.4.20
> >> + acpi)
> >> any ideas ? this really makes me impossible to work!
> >
> > gpm often has some strange effects on mouse in X. If it also may affect
> > the keyboard seems unlikely, but for the mouse problems, kill gpm.
> >
> > //I
> well I obviously tried without gpm and there is the same problem, btw i use
> gpm as a repeater to /dev/gpmdata, and X reads from it.
What mouse protocol do you use (gpm and X)?
I removed gpm and use "MouseManPlusPS/2" in X.
HTH,
Cristian
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