[NTLUG:Discuss] Funky mouse behavior in FC3
Burton Strauss
Burton_Strauss at comcast.net
Thu Jun 16 07:25:40 CDT 2005
I'd check the obvious thing - that which you changed. The KVM. It sounds
like there is a problem with the mouse emulation. Could be a bad KVM or
generic to the brand/model - sometimes they just don't like certain mice,
esp. the fancy ones.
Try connecting another mouse directly to the Linux box (i.e. unplug just
that port from the KVM) and see if that mouse works correctly. If so...
-----Burton
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Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 7:08 AM
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Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] Funky mouse behavior in FC3
Over the weekend, I purchased an Airlink 4 port KVM switch and connected it
to 3 of my computers. One is a FC3 64 bit machine, one is an old Smoothwall
box and the other is our old dual boot Weenderz 98/FC3 box. All
3 boxes boot up ok, I get video on all, keyboards work on all, but the dual
boot box now is doing some funky things with the mouse. I know it's a FC
thing because the mouse works fine in Weenderz. What it's doing is, once
the machine boots to the login screen, moving the mouse around causes it to
jump to the far lower left corner of the screen and it acts like it's
clicking on apps as it goes over them. If you log into a user session, it
does the same thing. If you move it VERY slowly, it'll move just a bit in
the direction you're moving it to, but then jumps right back to the lower
left corner. If you get it to pass over an icon on the panel, it brings up
that app like you clicked on it.
I know this has to be a configuration issue, but have no idea where to go to
see how to fix it. I've checked the /etc/X11/XFree86.conf file and the
mouse seems to be configured correctly there. It has to have something to
do with X because it seems to work properly on a text session when booting
into userlevel 3. I have also tried removing the computer from the KVM
switch and connecting the monitor, mouse and keyboard directly to the
computer, but it's doing the same thing, so it's obvious a configuration
file somewhere has been changed.
Any ideas what to look for?
Thanks,
L. Wayne Dahl
Fiber Network Technician
FTTP Fiber Solutions Center
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