Richard Lyons wrote:
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 10:08:41PM +0100, Axel Schlicht wrote:HiI 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...
It might be worth trying to reconfigure xserver-xorg. Not just for the mouse but for the frame buffering option also.When I first installed Etch, a few days ago on a fax machine, I couldn't get the mouse to work at all. Changing mouse options in Xserver, and also getting rid of adapters trying to fit a ps2 mouse to a com port, and restarting fixed it.
A number of things can effect X, including a recurring situation with different releases, of no smooth install of fonts into a native directory. This has screwed X install for me on a number of occasions, necessitating rewriting directory specs, predating Xorg and after.
Regards, David.