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Re: newby --flaky mouse question



On Sun, 2002-04-21 at 15:21, Travis Crump wrote:
Hi
I have also experienced some problem with mouse driver from time to
time, an the problem her was gpm mouse driver.
I solved the problem with removing gpm.
Try dpkg -P gpm

/ernst

> I had this problem once and finally tracked it down to using the wrong 
> Protocol.  Try switching the protocol to something else like 
> ExplorerPS/2 or something else.
> 
> 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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