Erratic mouse
on Fri, 11 Jan 2002 04:32:01AM +0100, marTin insinuated:
> makes sense. then this must be the problem. go for it, nori!
gone for. succeeded.
well, mostly. after the usual agonies my mother goes into when i take
apart anything involving both my computer (let alone hers!) and
screwdrivers, i found which video card i'd stuck in there last year
(didn't think to write it down at the time), took a clue from another
thread, ran dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86, and X is now up and
working.
except the mouse is really erratic. if i move it at all it goes
psychotic, opening up random rxvt terms, menus, and clicking itself
into a full screen of calculator applications and icons. which is
mildly amusing but not sustainably so, and since i prefer to primarily
work with X, i'm wondering what i did in the mouse configuration.
in the menus that i went through reconfiguring X, there were mouse
options. i remember doing the following:
* specifying the "PS/2" protocol since my little hp scrolly-wheel
mouse wasn't on the list (though as further reading suggested that
if i wanted the mouse-wheel working in X, i ought to make it ImPS/2,
so i manually edited just that line in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 -- any
experience with this; anyone gotten that scrolly wheel working in
X?)
* enabling "emulate 3 buttons"
* enabling the mouse-wheel functions as there were any
* specifying /dev/gpmdata as the mouse ____ [device? port? insert
whatever term this should be here], as:
orange:~# ls -l /dev/mouse
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Apr 8 2001 /dev/mouse ->
gpmdata
orange:~# ls -l /dev/gpmdata
prw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 10 22:11 /dev/gpmdata
^
(what's that p in the special bit?)
so i think this is all basically correct, but i'm not sure how to go
about varying these options without going through dpkg-reconfigure
xserver-xfree86 again, which i don't want to do, since everything else
seems to be working correctly. as X is kind of useless without the
mouse, does anyone have any ideas? i've been googling on this, and
can't find anything except to just keep going through the xf86config
again, and i don't feel like re-specifying everything, and possibly
screwing up the options that i currently have right. manually editing
XF86Config is an idea, i suppose, except i don't know what to do with
it.
any ideas? tia,
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