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Re: mouse problems in x

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From: Alf Stockton
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1995 00:00
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In article <30CBF2E6.54A9B882@cheney.net> "Todd Lewis (tgl2)" <tlewis@cheney.net> writes:
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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
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From: stockton@iafrica.com (Alf Stockton)
Subject: Re: mouse problems in x
Date: 1995/12/12
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