i had the same problem on my tp570 with xf4 and gpm. so i disabled the gpm and everything works fine.
ps: for some reason i could never use the wheel of a wheel mouse. Ole Sebastian Stein wrote: > > I am running testing and encountered a stange thing with the mouse. It just > skips around the screen whenever I touch the trackpoint on my Ibm X20 laptop. > Even though I don't touch the mouse buttons, menus pop up as if I had. I've > tried lots of different settings, but it still won't work. > > In the end I tried XFree86 3.3.6 from stable instead. No problems what so > ever. But I would really like to use XFree 4. Any suggestions? Is this a > bug? > > >From the 4.0.3 changelog; > -A problem with the ThinkingMousePS/2 protocol is fixed in the mouse > driver. > > I dunno if this is it, but nevertheless I am using PS/2 protocol which is > working in 3.3.6. Also a friend of mine has the ibm T21 and is also using > PS/2 (strangely enough it is working under 4.0.2 for him). > > (linux 2.4.3) > > -- > Ole Sebastian Stein > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ``It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems with just > potatoes.'' - Life, the universe and everything (Chapter 24), D. Adams > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- bye, alias m.nine.six.