On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 03:17:24PM -0700, Ed Young wrote: > Thanks for the reply. > > It's a standard PS/2 mouse with a scroll wheel. > > The mouse works fine under Windows XP(dual boot system) and when I cat > /dev/input/mice and move the mouse, I get the random characters. The > system is a cheapo MicroCenter PowerSpec, but I've had it running Linux > and X successfully in the past. As a matter of fact, I installed Ubuntu > on it the other day just to see if everything worked under Ubuntu and it > did. X and the mouse worked fine. > > Very frustrating how much trouble I've been having with this. > Any other ideas. > > Ed Well, the thing that normally works for me is to play around with the Protocol setting in the InputDevice section for my mouse. Right now, I only have a USB mouse and the protocol is ImPS/2. I forget what the other possible values are. Apparently, PS/2 mice do actually require different protocol settings depending on make and manufacturer. Do you own/could you borrow or procure an USB mouse? I found them to be much less painful to configure. You could play around with one of those to make sure that it's a problem with that particular mouse and not something more fundamental with X. Oh and one little anecdote from my vast store of experiences, a cautionary tale, if you will: Once upon a time, I had a very similar problem; kept me looking for answers for quite a while. In the end, it turned out that I had two mouse devices defined in my xorg.conf, but only one of them (the one that wasn't actually connected) was added to the ServerLayout section. Things to ponder... --j
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