Yeah, I've had that problem too. Just disable GPM and it should behave ok.
Oleg. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nadav Har'El" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 5:42 PM Subject: Somebody mickeyed with my mouse?! > Today I upgraded my PC at work. The hardware is all new (the old hardware > will be converted to a testing machine), but the hard-disk is my original > one, containing Redhat 8.0 and all my files. > Obviously, the first time I booted the new machine Kudzu ran and removed > old hardware's drivers and discovered some new harder (e.g., different network > cards, video card, etc.). > > Almost everying seems to be working on the new machine, except the mouse's > wheel stopped working. I know the mouse wheel is an evil Microsoft invention > which imitates Tk's middle mouse button bindings, but still, I've gotten > used to it when browsing in Mozilla, and I want it back... ;) > > When I have in /etc/X11/F86Config lines like > Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" > Option "Protocol" "PS/2" > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" > > The mouse works well, but the wheel is ignored. This makes sense, as the > protocol should be "IMPS/2", not "PS/2". But when I change it to IMPS/2 and > restart X (or even reboot), my mouse goes berserk, and randomly moves about, > tending to stick to the lower-left corner and moving at terrific speeds, but > only when it feels like it. > > Has anybody seen this phenomenon before? Needless to say, this is the same > wheel-mouse I always had on my old machine (a Logitech M-S48a) and the same > Linux and X11 software I had before... > > Can it be that my new BIOS is somehow screwing with the mouse? Or that the > new USB on the system (which I don't plug anything into) somehow got X11 > confused with fake mouse events? Or something else? > > I'll be grateful for any hints.. > > -- > Nadav Har'El | Monday, Mar 17 2003, 13 Adar II 5763 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- > Phone: +972-53-245868, ICQ 13349191 |From the Linux getopt(3) manpage: "BUGS: > http://nadav.harel.org.il |This manpage is confusing." > > ================================================================= > 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]
