Mouse is crazy in X

[Dave2001]

Hi Guys !

I have kinda big problem . Yesterday i had to reinstall my Debian system . Now that i have installed a testing System again is my mouse not working anymore . It seems to hang in the upper right corner and all the times buttons seem to be pressed .
I have tried a variety of Mouse protocols but none does change anything !
Oh and iam using Xfree86 4.10-7

Help ?


David

[j m slick]

I have redhat 6.2 with Gnome (don't know version... just whatever came with the 6.2 distro).

My 2 button "Microsoft Mouse Port Compatible 2.1A" mouse does the same thing: hangs out in top right corner. Can't move it anywhere, because it jumps right back to the corner.

I figure I have to quit Gnome, and edit something, but I can't get it to quit. CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE merely interupts Gnome for a second, then it comes right back with the login dialog.

I was also somehow able to get an xterm window in Gnome, but the kill command would not kill gnome, and merely resulted in the xterm having no response.

[-sureshot-]

i upgraded to testing last week, and my mouse is also wonky, though it'll occasionally start working right. i've tried just about every protocol there is to no avail, when i get back to that box i'm just going to play with Xconfigurator for awhile, i've heard that has fixed this problem before. i'll let you know if i get it working right.

as for slick: try hitting ctrl-alt-Fn (where n is a number != 7) to switch to a terminal, you should be able to edit the neccessary files from there. or at the boot prompt type linux 3 to log in without X.

the reason it goes right back to the login is because you are using a graphical login manager like XDM. this is one of many reasons not to use a graphical login manager. i'm firmly of the belief that all you should after first loggin in is $.

[Joeri Sebrechts]

You wouldn't all happen to be using gpm would you? That's known to interfere with X. It's a program that enables you to use your mouse when X isn't running, i.e. in the console. If you only run X, all the time, you can just as well remove it (actually uninstall the package called gpm).

Otherwise you're best off if you use /dev/gpmdata as your mouse device instead of /dev/mouse, since gpm has already opened /dev/mouse.

Gpm itself may also be misconfigured. I can't tell you how to reconfigure it as that varies from distro to distro. But it shouldn't be too tough.

[Matches Malone]

Mine did that too, but it was when I tried to change from regular PS/2 mouse to WHEELmouse drivers...

I would say to run XF86Config, and choose plain jane mouse...

HOPE THAT HELPS!