On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 10:24:37AM +0100, michael wrote:
> Folks - for a while I thought it was me but now I am sure that contents
> of a window (eg email windows or xpdf windows) do indeed move, seemingly
> of their own volition - an occasional jump to somewhere else in the
> contents. I've not managed to convince myself there's no correlation
> with my moving the mouse but am 99% convinced I don't mouse click at all
> when such 'auto scrolls' occur...
>
> I've searched DU archives but can't find any help (although my memory
> thought it had seen something there once but just cannot find it now!)
> so all help very welcome.
>
> Details of my system are:
>
> michael@ratty:~$ uname -a;cat /etc/apt/sources.list;lspci
> Linux ratty 2.4.27-1-686-smp #1 SMP Wed Dec 1 19:50:17 JST 2004 i686
> GNU/Linux
> #deb file:///cdrom/ sarge main
>
> deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ testing main
> deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ testing main
>
> deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
> 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. Server Memory Controller Hub (rev
> 0a)
> 0000:00:00.1 ff00: Intel Corp. Memory Controller Hub Error Reporting
> Register (rev 0a)
> 0000:00:02.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. Memory Controller Hub PCI Express
> Port A0 (rev 0a)
> 0000:00:03.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. Memory Controller Hub PCI Express
> Port A1 (rev 0a)
> 0000:00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 6300ESB 64-bit PCI-X Bridge (rev
> 02)
> 0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 6300ESB USB Universal Host
> Controller (rev 02)
> 0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 6300ESB USB Universal Host
> Controller (rev 02)
> 0000:00:1d.4 System peripheral: Intel Corp. 6300ESB Watchdog Timer (rev
> 02)
> 0000:00:1d.5 PIC: Intel Corp. 6300ESB I/O Advanced Programmable
> Interrupt Controller (rev 02)
> 0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 6300ESB USB2 Enhanced Host
> Controller (rev 02)
> 0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 0a)
> 0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 6300ESB LPC Interface Controller
> (rev 02)
> 0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 6300ESB PATA Storage Controller
> (rev 02)
> 0000:00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 6300ESB SATA Storage Controller
> (rev 02)
> 0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 6300ESB SMBus Controller (rev 02)
> 0000:04:02.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL
> (rev 27)
> 0000:04:03.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82541GI/PI Gigabit
> Ethernet Controller (rev 05)
> 0000:04:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy LS
>
> What I'm not so sure about is the XF86 config file:
> # XF86Config-4 (XFree86 X Window System server configuration file)
> {snip}
> Section "Module"
> Load "GLcore"
> Load "bitmap"
> Load "dbe"
> Load "ddc"
> Load "dri"
> Load "extmod"
> Load "freetype"
> Load "glx"
> Load "int10"
> Load "record"
> Load "speedo"
> Load "type1"
> Load "vbe"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
> Driver "keyboard"
> Option "CoreKeyboard"
> Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
> Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
> Option "XkbLayout" "us"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Configured Mouse"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "CorePointer"
> Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
> Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
> Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> EndSection
What kind of mouse do you have exactly? As it looks like a wheel mouse,
why do you have the Emulate3Buttons set to true? I'd set it to 'no' and
let the wheel click do the middle button action. Might or might not be
related to your problem...
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Generic Mouse"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
> Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
> Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
> Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> EndSection
>
> {snip}
> Section "ServerLayout"
> Identifier "Default Layout"
> Screen "Default Screen"
> InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
> InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
> InputDevice "Generic Mouse"
> EndSection
>
> Section "DRI"
> Mode 0666
> EndSection
>
>
> Thanks!
> --
> Michael Bane
> Atmospheric Physics Group
> University of Manchester
>
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