On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Conrad Parker wrote: > On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 07:38:41AM +1000, Jan Schmidt wrote: > > <quote who="Conrad Parker"> > > > > > is it an intellimouse? those things go screwy sometimes. [it may be a > > > hardware problem -- have you tried a different mouse?] > > > > > > > I've only ever seen trouble with Intellimeeces when uses them through gpm... > > if I get gpm out of the way, then the meece run fine. The symptom I see > > using gpm is that X will get confuses and push the cursor up against the > > edges of the screen regardless of how you move it. > > hmm, what occasionally happens to me (like, a few times a year, not every > day) is that my mouse cursor will decide to crawl slowly to the top of the > screen, and if there's virtual desktops above then of course it crawls into > them as well and keeps on going. Picking the mouse up off its mat and gently > shaking it seems to discipline it and it behaves properly again.
I have seen this on both of my laptops (a Toshiba Tecra, and an IBM Thinkpad). It happens in both the W thing and Linux... I've never been concerned. Mikal -- Michael Still ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) UMT+10hrs -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
