Turn the speed of the port all the way to 1200. I messed with that option
with mine, and it was acting up as well.
-----Original Message-----
From: Dane Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: David Churchill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: linux-newbie list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sunday, August 02, 1998 10:44 PM
Subject: Re: No mouse in X
>On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, David Churchill wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Well so far I've managed to install Slackware 3.5 get ppp and my modem
>> working. Install X and go it working almost. My problem is I can't get
my
>> mouse to work in X. It works in Linux out of X, although it does seem a
>> little sluggish. In X it is very sluggish and erratic, I can get some
>> motion out of it sometimes but it is not controllable or predictable.
>kill gpm...there is a command like `gpm -k' ro something, use `gpm -h' to
>get the command, that kills a running gpm...
>
>>
>> I've set the mouse to a Mouse Systems 3 button on /dev/mouse using
>> xf86config (I've tried all the mouse option presented with no success).
>>
>> Setserial reports my baud rate at 115,200 for the mouse and the port
address
>> and irq are fine.
>>
>> Outside of x GPM functions as it should.
>>
>> By the way this mouse works fine as a Mouse Systems 3 button in Windows
>>
>> Any ideas, or should I just get a genuine Microsoft Mouse.
>To tell you the truth, I couldnt get my 2button Microsoft Home Mouse to
>work in linux so I popped my old ps/2 back in amd freed a cua* (com port).
>
>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> David
>>
>
>Dane Helm [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bremerton, WA
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