Re: [TCLUG:21459] Mouse under X

[Jim Crumley <crumley@belka.space.umn.edu>]

On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 08:18:55PM -0500, Michael Josephson wrote:
> I'm having a bit of getting my mouse to function under X. It's one of those
> Logitech marble trackball things. It plugs into the ps/2 mouse port (and I have
> that set as the protocol in the config file), and I have /dev/mouse linked to
> /dev/psaux. The problem is that when you try to move the mouse under X, it
> jumps around on the screen, and you can tell that there are random phantom right
> and left clicks occuring. What's funny is that I first installed Linux a few
> weeks ago, and I didn't have any problems with the mouse. I reinstalled last
> week, and haven't been as lucky. Anyone have a guess as to what I'm missing? Oh,
> btw, I'm using Debian.

You might want to try removing gpm (dpkg --purge gpm, I think).
Gpm is for controlling the mouse on text consoles and its
supposed to play nice with X, but sometimes it isn't set
correctly.  I usually just remove it, because I don't
use the mouse on console anyway.

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