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Re: mouse problems in x

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From: Todd Lewis (tgl2)
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

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From: "Todd Lewis (tgl2)" <tlewis@cheney.net>
Subject: Re: mouse problems in x
Date: 1995/12/11
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