On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 12:23:40 +0200
Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 11:47:33AM +0200, Jesper L. Nielsen wrote:
> > 
> > Not really a pointer, but I had the same problem on Debian, so I hat
> > to steal my config file from a SuSE installation I had running.
> 
> Thanks Jesper.  That made me read again and realised that it was the
> mouse protocol that works in XFree but not in xorg. I removed
> xserver-xorg, deleted /etc/X11/xorg.conf and reinstalled it.  This
> time the configuration looked different:
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>       Identifier      "Configured Mouse"
>       Driver          "mouse"
>       Option          "CorePointer"
>       Option          "Device"                "gpmdata"
>       Option          "Protocol"              "ImPS/2"
>       Option          "Emulate3Buttons"       "true"
>       Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
> EndSection
> 
> I just had to change "gpmdata" to "/dev/gpmdata" and now it works.
> 

actually the change that made the difference was changing the protocol from
IntelliMouse to ImPS/2 if it was the device then you wouldn't get any input,
not just a misbehaving mouse.

> Regards
> Johann
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