Re: Erratic mouse in Debian Potota install
On Fri, 28 Jun 2002 23:33:02 -0700, Elaine Tsiang wrote:
>The machine is Dell stock, which came with RedHat 6.2 pre-installed. It has
>been running well for > 2 years. I decided to try Debian on it.
>
>The installation completed with an apparent successful XFree86 configuration.
>Upon reboot, X starts up fine, and the Debian splash screen is displayed with
>some initial icons. But the mouse cursor freezes, appears and disappears,
>moves irratically, and mouse clicks have random delayed effects. Needless to
>say, it is not usable.
>
>The mouse is PS/2. I have the standard "Pointer" section:
>
>Protocal "PS/2"
>Device "/dev/psaux"
>
>I am running twm, xdm and gnome.
>
>I have re-run XF86Setup many times, each time, the mouse works fine within
>XF86Setup. So maybe it's a problem with twm, etc.?
>
>Very late on a Friday, would appreciate some hint. Otherwise I'll have to
>abandon Debian, and go to RedHat 7.2, which is running fine on another
>machine with a PS/2.
Sounds like you have gpm running (lets mouse run in console). That
conflicts with /dev/psaux. Make the following configuration changes:
/etc/gpm.conf
# This file is used by /etc/init.d/gpm and can be modified by
# /usr/sbin/gpmconfig.
#
device=/dev/psaux
responsiveness=
repeat_type=raw # <--- acts as source for X's mouse
type=ps2
append=""
/etx/X11/XF86Config[-4] depends on version
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/gpmdata"
# ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# reads the raw data from gpm without conflict
Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
If I haven't left anything out, that ought to do it. Do "/etc/init.d/gpm
restart" Then restart X.
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gt
It is interesting to note that as one evil empire (generic) fell,
another Evil Empire (tm) began its nefarious rise. -- gt
Coincidence? I think not.
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