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Re: Mouse goes nuts in X



Have you tried killing gpm? From root, type

killall gpm

Glenn Becker
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At 12:55pm on Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Lars Knudsen wrote:

> John McPeek wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> >   As soon as I start X the mouse looks fine, sitting in the middle of the
> > screen. The moment I move it the cursor jumps to the top left and other than
> > bouncing around and jumping back to the corner I can't get it to do
> > anything. I have already tried different mice(PS2) wheel mouse and a optical
> > wheel mouse. I tried X config also. Any Ideas?
> 
> Sound very much like X is configured for the wrong mouse protocol. Have
> a look in /etc/X11/XF86Config or /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and look for 
> Protocol "protocol_this_or_that" and verify that the protocol is the
> one your mouse uses.
> 
> Happy hacking,
> 
> \Gandalf
> 
> 
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