Re: newby --flaky mouse question
Bill,
ps ax |grep gpm will tell you the PID of the gpm driver. kill it.
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Sincerely,
David Smead
http://www.amplepower.com.
On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, William Binkley wrote:
> I'm a debian newbie, with a seriously jumpy mouse pointer. I installed the
> isolinux woody mini-CD then used dselect and apt-get to finish installing X
> and gnome and enlightenment. There was plenty of opportunity for
> misconfiguration...
>
> Now (in gnome) the mouse pointer jumps and skitters around the screen,
> seemingly randomly, and can only with great difficulty and concentration be
> made to do anything useful. the pointer does sometimes respond to physically
> moving the mouse, so it is not totally random. It is a dual-boot system, and
> the other OS is redhat 7.0, and the same mouse and keyboard work perfectly
> well when I boot redhat, so I don't think it is a hardware issue.
>
> I have no idea where to start to try to fix this. The mouse is a microsoft
> intellimouse (a PS/2 wheelmouse-- 2 buttons and a wheel).
> the mouse lines from my XF86Config-4 file (typed not copied) are:
>
> Section "Input Device"
> Identifier "Configured Mouse"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "CorePointer"
> Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
> Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
> Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated... --Bill
>
>
>
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