On Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 01:51:56AM -0800, James wrote: > Ok, now I have my mouse working just fine when I am in the console (just > before issuing startX), but when I start Xwindows, my mouse cursor starts > in the center of the gray window, but as soon as the background and icons > appear, my cursor jumps off to the edge of the screen and moves up when I > scroll down, and down when I scroll up, and opens and closes windows > without me clicking. It's posessed. I'm running Mandrake 6.1. > > What is the reason for this, and is there a fix? It's strange that it > behaves fine in the console window but freaks in Xwindows. > There's two different configuration files at work; one for gpm and one for X. X probably needs to be told what kind of mouse you have. To find out...ah, now that's the question! Try "cat /etc/sysconfig/mouse"--that may tell you (it would on Red Hat). If it works, the "XMOUSETYPE" value will be the one X needs. -- R.
