On Mon, Mar 17, 2003, Boris Sukholitko wrote about "Re: Somebody mickeyed with my mouse?!": > On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 05:42:06PM +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote: > > 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. > > I've had the same problem in my Debian box a couple of days > before. There obviously was some kind of conflict with gpm. > I've solved it by brutally removing gpm package from my > system.
For me, disabling gpm (I did "chkconfig --del gpm" and killed gpm, not removed the RPM, but this should not make any difference) did not help. Following the advice of some people, I even powered off the machine, took out the plug, waited and then plugged it back in - because perhaps my mouse has the memory of an elephant and remembers for some reason it should be a PS/2. But none of that helped. My mouse still refuses to work correctly when the X configuration contains IMPS/2. I also checked with "od /dev/mouse" that no mouse events are generated when I move the mouse wheel - so apparently my mouse is indeed in some PS/2 mode... Is there a utility, ioctl, or something to change the mode of the mouse? Could it be that the BIOS is forcing my mouse to be PS/2? I looked in the BIOS's setup menus, but couldn't find anything about that... Well, I guess I need to relearn to use the scroll bar... :) -- Nadav Har'El | Tuesday, Mar 18 2003, 14 Adar II 5763 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone: +972-53-245868, ICQ 13349191 |Hardware, n.: The parts of a computer http://nadav.harel.org.il |system that can be kicked. ================================================================= 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]
