Tim Gruene wrote: > Hello, > > I hope I picked the correct list for my problem. > > I recently installed Debian lenny on a Pentium 4 with Radeon 9800 Pro > graphic chip. > > Everything worked fine as usually until I wanted to use a graphics program > which uses OpenGL. > Amongst others, the program accepts the following mouse actions: > > Centre-click on a displayed point centres on the point > Ctrl-righ-click moves the scene sideways. > > On this installation, the centre-click is responded with "Atom pick > failed" and nothing happens, the Ctrl-right-click results in arbitrary > jumps far, far away from the current view point and a distortion of the > view. > > Today I noticed the same behaviour on my laptop where it definitely worked > until recently (unfortunately I don't know, HOW recently, otherwise I > would check what has been updated since). > > Both machines use the ATI prorietry driver, but I also tried the ati and > radeon drivers. > > I am quite sure it is a software error related to the (Debian) system > rather than the program because the problem persists if I open the program > through an ssh tunnel from another machine but disappears when done the > other way round (started on another machine opened on mine). > > I would appreciate any hints and ideas how I could trace back the problem > and solve it. > > Cheers, Tim Hi Tim, I'm also using Lenny (2.6.22 kernel) with fglrx for a Radeon 9550 video card. I am not getting this mouse behaviour when running opengl graphics programs (ppracer, google-earth, neverball, etc.). Can you post the section of your xorg.conf file dealing with the pointing device? Maybe there's a difference in our two setups that might help find the problem. Cheers, Jonathan -- Registerd Linux user #445917 at http://counter.li.org/
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