[NTLUG:Discuss] Crazy Mouse!

[Kelly Scroggins]

I thought I had turned gpm off but that was the other machine.  Anyway, I
disabled it and the problem persists.

I've run ps-ax and gpm doesn't show up as a running process.

Kelly

lee wrote:

> you didn't happen to add the repeater (-r) or multiple (-M) flag to
> your gpm services did you?  perhaps you were trying to configure a
> more responsive/sensitive mouse through yast and it might have added
> those flags without your explicit knowlege maybe.
>
> if so, X would get mouse activity input from /dev/gpmdata and the
> device is "MouseSystems" for your /etc/XF86Config file.
>
> -- lee
> (who forgot about picking up his suse disks this morning from HHS -
> oops)
>
> Kelly Scroggins wrote:
> >
> > Yes, it is a ps/2 mouse and the XF86Config file "thinks" it is too.
> >
> >     Section "Pointer"
> >         Protocol    "PS/2"
> >         Device      "/dev/mouse"
> >
> > And it's a symlink to /dev/psaux
> >
> >     lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root            5 Aug  1 13:37 mouse -> psaux
> >
> > Kelly
>
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