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Article #113Re: mouse problems in x
From: Todd Lewis (tgl2)
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 00:00
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 00:00
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Sounds to me like a driver problem. The best thing to do is play aroung with gpm until you have your mouse working properly at the shell, put gpm in retransmit mode (-R), configure X to read from gpm and you're off to the races. gpm -h for more info. Robert Woolaston wrote: > > i have just got xfree86 3.1.2 going on my machine (a pentium with a diamond > stealth64 card) - everything is working but the mouse. its not that it freezes > up, quite the opposite in fact - it is jumping around the screen all the time. > for instance, if i try to move an xterm to a different part of the screen, it > the cursor junps off the place i have selected and reappears in another part > of the screen. the mouse is a microsoft "home" mouse, which i have called a > "microsoft" mouse in my XF86Config file. i have tried another microsoft mouse - > the larger "ergonomically" shaped version (forgotten what its called) - and it > does the same thing in x. > > has anybody had the same troubles? thanks in advance -- Todd Lewis*VP Networking*Cheney Communications Company*tlewis@cheney.net ________________________________________________________________________ Copyright 1995, Todd Lewis.This message may not be used or distributed by the Microsoft Corporation except upon payment of royalties in the sum of $500 to the copyright owner.Usage constitutes an agreement to these terms.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102b32,d139a8efddff1091 X-Google-Attributes: gid102b32,public X-Google-Thread: f4bda,d139a8efddff1091 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4bda,public X-Google-Thread: 102983,d139a8efddff1091 X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public X-Google-Thread: f9b51,d139a8efddff1091 X-Google-Attributes: gidf9b51,public From: "Todd Lewis (tgl2)" <tlewis@cheney.net> Subject: Re: mouse problems in x Date: 1995/12/11 Message-ID: <30CBF2E6.54A9B882@cheney.net> X-Deja-AN: 121543223 references: <4ab1lb$mng@metz.une.edu.au> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Cheney Communications Company mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware,aus.computers.linux x-mailer: Mozilla 2.0b3 (X11; I; Linux 1.2.3 i486)