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Re: Mouse pointer jumps around



on Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 04:48:10PM +0100, Tim van Erven (tripudium@chello.nl) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Recently I've been experiencing some kind of alien mouse syndrom while
> running X. Sometimes my pointer will just jump up and to the right a
> bit when I move the mouse, much like you could get by setting the wrong
> mouse in your X config, and then all will be back to normal again.
> 
> However, I've not changed my mouse config in months and it used to work
> flawlessly before. (I've got gpm repeating raw mouse events and X
> listening on /dev/gpmdata.)
> 
> To give an indication of the timeframe: I first starting experiencing
> this problem shortly after upgrading my kernel from 2.4.13 to 2.4.14. I
> just tried reverting to 2.4.13, but the problem persists.
> 
> At this point I'm not really sure where to start looking for a cause,
> so I'm turning to this list for ideas on how to start isolating this
> problem.

In the dumb-and-obvious category, have you tried cleaning your mouse
and/or mouspad?

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