Re: Potato broke my mouse in X?

[Aaron Solochek <leko@cmu.edu>]

Turns out that AccelerratedX 5 doesn't mind slink's gpm, but won't work with
potato's.  So I just removed gpm from startup, and now everythings fine.
Thanks to everyone who helped.

-Aaron Solochek
 leko@cmu.edu

"John R. Sheets" wrote:

> Aaron Solochek wrote:
> >
> > I just installed a potato partiton, all seemed to go well.  I even
> > installed accelerated X on it, and its setup didn't segfault, an obvious
> > improvement.  The first time I ran X everything worked fine.  Then, out
> > of the blue, the mouse stopped working in X.
>
> I get this too, from time to time.  Could this be an Xserver issue?  I'm
> using the xserver-svga 3.5.5-1 package with, I believe, a Matrox
> Millenium G200 video card.  I haven't found a way to fix it, but I did
> discover quite accidentally that if I switch to a console tty, then back
> to my X tty, it restores control to the cursor...after a little
> weirdness.  The first time you move the mouse after switching back,
> it'll spaz out, emitting a couple random click events and landing in the
> upper right corner.
>
> I'm also using CVS Enlightenment as my window manager, but I highly
> doubt that's related.
>
> So, try a <Ctrl><Alt>F6 then an <Alt>F7 and see if you get your mouse
> back.
>
> HTH,
> John