Re: Mouse Locking up in KDE2

[Paul Wright <paul@cvanet.com>]

On Sun, 15 Jul 2001 14:01:23 EDT, Dude wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, Jonathan Daugherty wrote:
> > > My girlfriend optical intellimouse seems to become useless
> > > in the kde2 beta.  It seems to happen if there has been no activity
> > > and then she starts using it again.
> >
> > I had that same bug when using X >= 4 and Kde2.  It also seems to happen
> > with any WM with X4.  I fixed it by stopping gpm.  It seems to confuse X
> > and I noticed that when gpm is running, I get erratic mouse behavior until
> > I turn it off.
> 
> 
> 
> I have removed gpm (but ill doule check) but it still seems to lock up
> 
> G
> 

If the mouse works properly in gpm, you can make x11 and gpm play nice by 
setting your mouse device in x11 to /dev/gpmdata.  I've not tried this 
with an optical intellimouse, but it has worked for me in every instance I 
have had a conflict between gpm and x11.

--ptw


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