On Sun, 15 Jul 2001 14:01:23 EDT, Dude wrote:
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> On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, Jonathan Daugherty wrote:
> > > My girlfriend optical intellimouse seems to become useless
> > > in the kde2 beta. It seems to happen if there has been no activity
> > > and then she starts using it again.
> >
> > I had that same bug when using X >= 4 and Kde2. It also seems to happen
> > with any WM with X4. I fixed it by stopping gpm. It seems to confuse X
> > and I noticed that when gpm is running, I get erratic mouse behavior until
> > I turn it off.
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> I have removed gpm (but ill doule check) but it still seems to lock up
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> G
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If the mouse works properly in gpm, you can make x11 and gpm play nice by
setting your mouse device in x11 to /dev/gpmdata. I've not tried this
with an optical intellimouse, but it has worked for me in every instance I
have had a conflict between gpm and x11.
--ptw
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Some could articulate, while others not:
And suddenly one more impatient cried --
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