I have the exact same problem on my compaq laptop. I've seen various reports about it on the web, but I have no idea why it occurs, sorry.
Alexander Maryanovsky. At 18:25 5/20/2002 -0400, Arie Folger wrote: >Hi, > >My beloved laptop is afflicted with a new disease (bug), never noticed before >upgrading to RH7.3+KDE3.0.1, and I don't know what to blame. Sometimes, as I >am working and X is on, the mouse pointer suddenly ceases to represent the >actual coordinates of this critter (actually, it's a touchpad), and is about >1.5 cm to the left of it's actual, invisible location. Today I paid special >attention to this problem and noticed that >* gpm was not affected; in console mode the mouse was doing just fine >* restarting X didn't help >* deleting (uhm, backing up) ~/.kde/ did not help >* running qtconfig turned up no interesting info >* warm rebooting did not help >* only a cold reboot helped > >Does this sound familiar? The fact that warm rebooting did not help points to >a hardware problem, but why now? And why is gpm not behaving badly? > >Your help is truly appreciated, > >Arie Folger >-- >It is absurd to seek to give an account of the matter to a man >who cannot himself give an account of anything; for insofar as >he is already like this, such a man is no better than a vegetable. > -- Book IV of Aristotle's Metaphysics > >================================================================= >To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with >the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command >echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
