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Article #114Re: mouse problems in x
From: Alf Stockton
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1995 00:00
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1995 00:00
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In article <30CBF2E6.54A9B882@cheney.net> "Todd Lewis (tgl2)" <tlewis@cheney.net> writes: >Path: iafrica.com!ticsa.com!cstatd.cstat.co.za!ucthpx!quagga.ru.ac.za!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!wabbit.cc.uow.edu.au!ifi.uio.no!nntp-oslo.UNINETT.no!nntp-trd.UNINETT.no!newsfeed.sunet.se!news0 >.sunet.se!sunic!nntp.coast.net!news.sprintlink.net!opus.cheney.net!news >From: "Todd Lewis (tgl2)" <tlewis@cheney.net> >Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware,aus.computers.linux >Subject: Re: mouse problems in x >Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 08:59:18 +0000 >Organization: Cheney Communications Company >Lines: 29 >Message-ID: <30CBF2E6.54A9B882@cheney.net> >References: <4ab1lb$mng@metz.une.edu.au> >NNTP-Posting-Host: scooby.cheney.net >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b3 (X11; I; Linux 1.2.3 i486) >Xref: iafrica.com!ticsa.com!cstatd.cstat.co.za comp.os.linux.x:22989 comp.os.linux.setup:37790 comp.os.linux.hardware:28409 aus.computers.linux:3587 >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 >$500 to the copyright owner.Usage constitutes an agreement to these >terms.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102b32,d139a8efddff1091 X-Google-Attributes: gid102b32,public X-Google-Thread: f9b51,d139a8efddff1091 X-Google-Attributes: gidf9b51,public X-Google-Thread: f4bda,d139a8efddff1091 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4bda,public X-Google-Thread: 102983,d139a8efddff1091 X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public From: stockton@iafrica.com (Alf Stockton) Subject: Re: mouse problems in x Date: 1995/12/12 Message-ID: <stockton.1.0013C130@iafrica.com> X-Deja-AN: 121543233 references: <4ab1lb$mng@metz.une.edu.au> <30CBF2E6.54A9B882@cheney.net> organization: Internet Africa newsgroups: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware,aus.computers.linux