Re: ps/2 mouse flickering on toshiba - xfree 4.1.0-16
On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 05:42:30PM +0100, Vasco Figueira wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> When recently upgraded from potato to woody, wich means xfree 3.x to
> 4.x, I have occasionaly some problems with my external (ps/2) mouse.
>
> I have a Toshiba Satellite 4070, and the mouse is a Microsoft
> Intellimouse 1.2A, PS/2 compatible. Xfree version is the latest on
> woody, 4.1.0-16. gpm is installed, but with or without it, it's the
> same.
>
> The bug is tremendously annoying for two reasons:
> 1) It's occasional and not reproducible. Sometimes happens, sometimes
> not. Sometimes a reboot fixes it, sometimes not.
> 2) If I don't touch the mouse it stays put, if not, it flickers and
> jumps all over the screen every time I move it, pressing things it
> should not press. :-)
>
> I'm totally clueless about this. Should I fill a bug report?
>
> Follows XF86Config-4.
>
...
> Section "ServerLayout"
> Identifier "Default Layout"
> Screen "Default Screen"
> InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
> InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
> InputDevice "Generic Mouse"
> EndSection
>
...
I've had a similar problem, and commented out one of the above mouses to
"solve" it. Presumably there's a way to prevent the problem recurring,
perhaps using debconf?, but I've opted for the quick fix. I have found
that gpm also can cause such problems, but I've long since removed it from
my system.
Ken
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Ken Irving <jkirving@mosquitonet.com>
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