mouse problems in KDE
I am not sure where this problem lies. The mouse seems to work fine from the console. It also seems to work fine at the kde login screen, but once kde loads I can not move the mouse smoothing, it mouse jumps all over the place and adds random mouse clicks. I am using imps/2 mouse. It didn't seem to work well so I currently using it as a ps/2 mouse. Ofcourse M$ calls this a ps/2 compatible mouse. Any ideas where to start looking? Also seems to work fine under mandrake 8.1 as a ps/2 mouse. -tim.
Re: mouse problems in KDE
On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 01:16:17AM -0400, tim wrote: I am not sure where this problem lies. The mouse seems to work fine from the console. It also seems to work fine at the kde login screen, but once kde loads I can not move the mouse smoothing, it mouse jumps all over the place and adds random mouse clicks. The problem is that gpm (the console mouse daemon) and X are conflicting with each other. For some reason the Linux psaux driver doesn't do a very good job at abstracting access to the ps/2 mouse interface. This problem never shows up in FreeBSD, which has a better driver for this hardware interface. If you don't use gpm, you can simply remove it. Then X will be able to access the ps/2 port without any trouble. If you do use GPM, then you should be able to tell X (in XF86Config) to use /dev/gpmdata as the mouse device. The protocol information should remain unchanged. noah -- ___ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html pgpnd5gI9e2oj.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: mouse problems in KDE
On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 01:16:17AM -0400, tim wrote: I am not sure where this problem lies. The mouse seems to work fine from the console. It also seems to work fine at the kde login screen, but once kde loads I can not move the mouse smoothing, it mouse jumps all over the place and adds random mouse clicks. If you do use GPM, then you should be able to tell X (in XF86Config) to use /dev/gpmdata as the mouse device. The protocol information should remain unchanged. Yes this is probably the best, but do not forget to switch on repeating with gpmconfig! Use raw as protocol. Cheers, Stephan
