[NTLUG:Discuss] Crazy Mouse!

[Kelly Scroggins]

Update:

Okay, I should've tried the simple stuff first.

My mouse is (was) a microsoft ps/2 mouse.  I read in a newsgroup
somewhere that someone had the same problem and discovered (somehow)
that the MS mouse was sending multilple "signals" to the OS/Window
Manager.

So I changed the mouse to a generic "3 button" type I had laying around
the house and it works great.

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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