Re: Jerky Mouse

[Richard Lyons <richard@the-place.net>]

On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 10:08:41PM +0100, Axel Schlicht wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I installed the latest incarnation of Debian i386 (4.01R1) and X runs OK 
> (with no manual fiddling - first time ever, whow). But one problem remains:
> My mouse (or rather mice, for I tried several), connected to a PS2 port 
> run smoothly under Win2K and Knoppix 4 and 5. Unfortunately, they don't 
> do so under Debian. Instead of gliding continuously over the screen they 
> rather jump. So everything requiring a mouse, e.g., web browsing, 
> drawing (tgif, xfig etc.) is almost impossible.

Have you installed gpm?  Which might be part of the answer...

-- 
richard