erratic mouse

[-B]

I installed Suse 7.2 and everything went fine except for my mouse. It jumps all around the screen and then returns to the lower left corner when I stop giving it inputs. Anybody got ideas on how to fix this.

[Col. Panic]

Really? Is it dressed in slinky underthings, or what?

<EDIT> Sorry, misread topic :o </EDIT>

[thedexman]

Please tell us what mouse you are using (specifically, how it plugs into the computer, eg USB, PS/2, serial), and the output of 'grep Protocol /var/log/XFree86.0.log' or just the entire contents of /var/log/XFree86.0.log

LOL Colonel Panic, you can delete posts

[ 08 November 2001: Message edited by: thedexman ]

[Col. Panic]

Sorry, I suppose if I'm going to make a bad joke, I ought to at least contribute something useful to solving your problem, eh? The times I've seen this before, it involved having the wrong protocol set for the mouse. As dex said, let us know what sort of mouse you've got and what protocol the system is currently set to receive.

[thedexman]

i'm just a little slow from lack of sleep, it's pretty damn funny now that I think about it.

[-B]

Thank you for all the replies, yes, I was wearing womens panites while trying to get my mouse working. It is a microsoft 2 button mouse, I believe it came with dell computer. It is a PS2 mouse.....Yes, I thought the erotic mouse joke was funny as well. I need a laugh, I sure cant get my linux to work.

[ 08 November 2001: Message edited by: -B ]

[-B]

I will grep the config file and see what it says for mouse protocol and post it to the site.

[-B]

I read ealier that a screen resolution set to high would cause this. Does that sound right to anyone? It sure looks like crap @ 800 X 600.

[bdg1983]

Originally posted by -B:
<STRONG>I read ealier that a screen resolution set to high would cause this. Does that sound right to anyone? It sure looks like crap @ 800 X 600.</STRONG>

I've never heard of that one before.

I run at 1600x1200 both at work and at home and never have problems with any of the mice I use.

[thedexman]

Since it's a PS/2 mouse, the InputDevice section in /etc/X11/XF86Config should look something like:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
EndSection


Make sure the line
Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
is exactly as above in your XF86Config.

[sans-hubris]

Are you using gpm? If you have two different programs trying to probe the same port (e.g. gpm and X at the same time), you'll get that problem. If you are using gpm, make sure /dev/mouse is pointing to /dev/gpmdata instead of /dev/psaux.
I.e.
rm /dev/mouse #(if it's there)
ln -s /dev/gpmdata /dev/mouse
(this assumes that you're using thedexman's example)

[ 09 November 2001: Message edited by: Muad Dib --formerly ndogg ]