[newbie] mouse problems

2005-02-21 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
Exchanged mouse for PS2 optical and going very nicely now. Thanks all who tried to help with the other one. Rosemary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club :

[newbie] Mouse problems

2004-03-22 Thread JRH
Hi All, I have a problem Every now and then, my mouse pointer will go totally mental, flying round the screen, opening up applications, minimizing windows, and generally doing it's own thing. Is this a problem with Linux or a hardware issue? I have a windows partition, and not once

Re: [newbie] Mouse problems

2004-03-22 Thread JRH
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 06:48:30 -0500 Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I plugged the offender back in to the box it went crazy on and, sure enough, it was unusable. Go figure. Lee Hmmm.. It could well be my rodent then. I bought it from our local Sunday market, for the

Re: [newbie] Mouse Problems

2003-08-17 Thread crak600
this is gonna sound really weird, i can't explain it. my scroll mouse fully functions now and i have no idea why. i've played with the configuration to no end and couldn't get it to work. earlier today i had rebooted into ms-win to burn some photo cds, when i booted back into linux, the

[newbie] Mouse Problems

2003-08-15 Thread crak600
Posted this to the list yesterday but it still hasn't hit the list. and as said below, having a hell of a time accessing the archives. so here it is again, hope someone can help (and hope it makes it to the list this time). sorry to put this to the list w/out searching the archives first,

Re: [newbie] Mouse Problems

2003-08-15 Thread ed tharp
As root, in a text console mousedrake choose 'logitec mouseman+' I think that should do what you want, maybe not. On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 15:32, crak600 wrote: Posted this to the list yesterday but it still hasn't hit the list. and as said below, having a hell of a time accessing the archives.

Re: [newbie] Mouse Problems

2003-08-15 Thread ed tharp
On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 19:50, ed tharp wrote: As root, in a text console mousedrake choose 'logitec mouseman+' I think that should do what you want, maybe not. run the test though. On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 15:32, crak600 wrote: Posted this to the list yesterday but it still hasn't hit the

Re: [newbie] Mouse Problems

2003-08-15 Thread crak600
On Friday 15 August 2003 08:07 pm, ed tharp wrote: On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 19:50, ed tharp wrote: As root, in a text console mousedrake choose 'logitec mouseman+' I think that should do what you want, maybe not. run the test though. didn't work. as far as any test, the only thing i know of

Re: [newbie] Mouse Problems

2003-08-15 Thread Aron Smith
On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 19:51, crak600 wrote: On Friday 15 August 2003 08:07 pm, ed tharp wrote: On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 19:50, ed tharp wrote: As root, in a text console mousedrake choose 'logitec mouseman+' I think that should do what you want, maybe not. run the test though.

Re: [newbie] Mouse problems at boot

2002-11-28 Thread Gordon Bradbury
Steve, Are you saying I should try disabling the PNP in the BIOS? I'll try it and see how it goes. Yes the mouse is plugged into a PS2 port. Thanks! Gordon Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] 28/11/02 14:01:54 On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 09:46, Gordon Bradbury wrote: G'day all, I've just got a

Re: [newbie] Mouse problems at boot

2002-11-28 Thread John Richard Smith
No, not necessarily, that depends on your windblows/bios relationship, you may need it. No, I'm saying mandrake does not need to look at your bios settings for pnp instruction, and the method I have described is the way to stop it doing it. John Gordon Bradbury wrote: Steve, Are you

Re: [newbie] Mouse problems at boot

2002-11-27 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 09:46, Gordon Bradbury wrote: G'day all, I've just got a new P4 box at home, and successfully loaded xp and mandrake 9 onto it. I'm a long-time windows user, but this is my first exposure to linux/mandrake. I have a 2-button ps-2 mouse installed. The machine is

[newbie] Mouse problems at boot

2002-11-26 Thread Gordon Bradbury
G'day all, I've just got a new P4 box at home, and successfully loaded xp and mandrake 9 onto it. I'm a long-time windows user, but this is my first exposure to linux/mandrake. I have a 2-button ps-2 mouse installed. The machine is developing the habit of sometimes not recognising the mouse

[newbie] mouse problems in x

2001-11-19 Thread Shannon Bernhard Neuhofer
Have Logitech MouseMan Wheel; When starting x mouse cursor shows up but doesn't move. Error codes when loading x are: (EE) xf860 OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/psaux No such devices or address. (WW) Mouse1: cannot open input device Also tried a different mouse - albeit it was also a PS/2

[newbie] Mouse Problems in KDE

2000-07-21 Thread Kim White
Hi Does anyone know how to stop a jittery mouse in KDE. It just moves to a corner and sticks there with a shaking action when I move the mouse. It is a PS/2 Intellimouse. Kind RegardsKim WhitePinnacle Micro SecundaTel: (017) 631 2668FAX: (017) 631 3139email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Mouse Problems in KDE

2000-07-21 Thread Rob Ogilvie
Did you set it up properly in XF86Setup? Make sure you have the correct mouse set there... sounds to me like whatever you set it to isn't compatable with your mouse. --- Kim White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Does anyone know how to stop a jittery mouse in KDE. It just moves to a corner

[newbie] Mouse Problems

2000-02-19 Thread Sean Geoghegan
I am having problems with my PS2 mouse in Mandrake 7.0. When ever there is a fair amount of disk activity the pointer will jump accross the screen with the slightest movement. Any one experienced this. Also is there anyway to get my mouse wheel working? Thanks Sean

Re: [newbie] Mouse Problems

2000-02-19 Thread Ron Burns
On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, you wrote: I am having problems with my PS2 mouse in Mandrake 7.0. When ever there is a fair amount of disk activity the pointer will jump accross the screen with the slightest movement. Any one experienced this. Also is there anyway to get my mouse wheel working?

[newbie] Mouse problems!

1999-11-26 Thread Bennett Hunter
Well, I finally got it installed (Linux-Mandrake 6.0). I had some trouble getting the X Server up and running, but I finally made it over that hurdle. I'm using the KDE environment with the Mach64 accel. server, and the first time I went in the mouse worked fine. I had to run the xf86config

RE: [newbie] Mouse problems!

1999-11-26 Thread Ramiro López Sales
Subject: [newbie] Mouse problems! Well, I finally got it installed (Linux-Mandrake 6.0). I had some trouble getting the X Server up and running, but I finally made it over that hurdle. I'm using the KDE environment with the Mach64 accel. server, and the first time I went in the mouse

Re: [newbie] mouse problems (hey gurus, need some help!)

1999-05-27 Thread Brian Erikson
Jose, I forgot to mention, that when you change a mouse setting with mouseconfig you need to run Xconfigurator again to get the info into the Xfiles. I found this out when I converted from a serial mouse to a PS/2 mouse on one machine. Brian Jose Alberto Abreu wrote: Brian Erikson

[newbie] mouse problems

1999-05-26 Thread Jose Alberto Abreu
Finally the my Mandrake copy arrived!! Installation was a breeze (easier and faster than MS Widows and definitely easier and faster than Redhat 5.1), but I seem to have a problem with my mouse (a PS/2 Genius Netmouse). I have run a couple of the selections from mouseconfig (including "PS/2

Re: [newbie] mouse problems

1999-05-26 Thread Pliler Main Unit
Jose, Is this LM 6.0 you are talking about arriving? I am waiting for it too. Will - Original Message - From: Jose Alberto Abreu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 1999 2:25 PM Subject: [newbie] mouse problems Finally the my Mandrake copy

Re: [newbie] mouse problems

1999-05-26 Thread Jose Alberto Abreu
Brian Erikson escribió: Jose Alberto Abreu wrote: I have run a couple of the selections from mouseconfig (including "PS/2 Genius Netmouse" and "Generic PS/2 mouse"), but the result is the same: the cursor flickers and moves every couple of seconds to the upper right corner of the screen

[newbie] mouse problems

1999-03-11 Thread PJ : Biztech
Problem: need to run 'mouseconfig --kickstart' everytime before I start 'startx' to get my mouse to work. When I run the normal 'mouseconfig' and select my mouse that never seems to work. only the kickstart suboption. If I close kde and 'startx' again the mouse will not move.

Re: [newbie] mouse problems

1999-03-11 Thread Steve Philp
PJ : Biztech wrote: Problem: need to run 'mouseconfig --kickstart' everytime before I start 'startx' to get my mouse to work. When I run the normal 'mouseconfig' and select my mouse that never seems to work. only the kickstart suboption. If I close kde and 'startx'