I have installed debian potato on a 600Mhz Athlon system and have been having problems with the mouse: the problem is most noticable in X but also occurs in the console with gpm, when i move the mouse it will at times go out of control, the pointer starts jumping around the screen extremely fast with the buttons going off randomly (i am not clicking the mouse buttons, but the windowmaker menu, and window menus appear and my workspaces are switched around when the mouse `clicks' my windowmaker clip several times, it has even dragged icons off the dock and thrown them away) the pointer usually ends up in the upper right corner of the screen but it jumps around so fast i can only see where it has been by where menus pop up and windows get closed etc. it is exceedingly annoying. i have tried disabling gpm, with no effect, furthermore this problem DOES occur in gpm without X and X without gpm, and with both running. i have also tried 3 seperate mice, 2 three button, one 2 button. all exhibit this problem. the mouse only starts going into these `fits' when i use it, it never does this when the mouse is sitting idle. it appears to go into these fits more often when i move the mouse faster, but moving the mouse at all (even slowly) still triggers it (just not quite as often) X and gpm are configured for ps/2 mouse at /dev/mouse (symlink to /dev/psaux) i am using the same configuration on two other intel systems with no such troubles. here is my gpm.conf, but note that i have disabled GPM and still had these problems in X: device=/dev/mouse responsiveness=15 repeat_type= type=ps2 append="-3 -a 3 -d 5 -l \"a-zA-Z0-9_.:~/\300-\326\330-\366\370-\377\"" and here is my X config: Section "Pointer" Protocol "PS/2" Device "/dev/mouse" Resolution 100 Buttons 3 EndSection the 2 seperate mice were all different brands, the one i am using now is a 3 button Logitech PS/2. i am at a loss, i have NEVER seen anything like this before, any ideas? -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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