[ale] Wacky Mouse

[Allan Neal]

I have had this problem before as well on Gentoo.  It was realated to gpm.  I
never was able to resolve the problem.  A later relaese of gpm and Xorg solved
the problem for me.

Allan

On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 09:45:18PM -0400, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> I have not used gentooo, but I _have_ had the mouse-wackies before. It
> hsa always been due to the wrong mouse driver (i.e. ps2 on a logitech,
> etc). If you are in X, get out. Stop gpm. reconfigure the mouse for
> console use. reconfigure the mouse for X. restart X. cross fingers...
> 
> On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 20:37 -0400, David Corbin wrote:
> > I posted this yesterday to gentoo-user, but I've not gotten much response, and 
> > my laptop is largely unsusable, so I thought I'd ask here too.
> > -----
> > Today, my mouse has gone wacky.  Previously I had a fine working Gentoo/X11 
> > system on my Dell I8600.  A week ago, upgraded my profile, and updated the 
> > system, including switching to udev. I had no problem for the last week, so I 
> > believe that all worked well.
> > 
> > Today, I did another update ("emerge -uavD world"), and started to muck with 
> > user-mode linux.  This did necessitate a rebuild of my kernel, and a reboot.  
> > When I was done, my pointer is wacky.
> > 
> > "Wacky" mean the pointer is largely "stuck" near the bottom left corner of the  
> > display.   Any attempt to move it generates a great deal of flashing of the 
> > pointer.  When I start X, the pointer appears dead center of the screen, 
> > until I touch the touchpad at which point it jumps to the bottom left area of 
> > the screen.
> > 
> > I've reviewed what was emerged, and I don't think anything is likely to have 
> > caused this problem.  I've tried changing my config to not use the synaptics 
> > drive, but that had no effect.
> > 
> > Any ideas?
> > David
> > _______________________________________________
> > Ale mailing list
> > Ale at ale.org
> > http://www.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
> -- 
> James P. Kinney III          \Changing the mobile computing world/
> CEO & Director of Engineering \          one Linux user         /
> Local Net Solutions,LLC        \           at a time.          /
> 770-493-8244                    \.___________________________./
> http://www.localnetsolutions.com
> 
> GPG ID: 829C6CA7 James P. Kinney III (M.S. Physics)
> <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com>
> Fingerprint = 3C9E 6366 54FC A3FE BA4D 0659 6190 ADC3 829C 6CA7



> _______________________________________________
> Ale mailing list
> Ale at ale.org
> http://www.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale

-- 
 __^__                                          __^__
( ___ )----------------------------------------( ___ )
 | / | "Engineers aren't boring people,         | \ |
 | / | we just get excited about boring things" | \ |
 |___|                 --Anon                   |___|
(_____)----------------------------------------(_____)
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: not available