| Jeff Abrahamson on 8 Oct 2003 13:31:02 -0000 |
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On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 06:59:21PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote: > [23 lines, 165 words, 1149 characters] Top characters: -entaois > > On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 08:44:05AM -0400, Jeff Abrahamson said: > > After wiping Redhat from a machine and installing debian stable, I'm > > seeing random mouse events: the mouse cursor jumps across the screen, > > selections appear and disappear, menus become activated by phantom > > clicks. This is not only inconvenient, it is dangerous. (Random text > > pasted in xterms is bad.) > > > > I've tried changing mice, thinking the mouse just happened to go > > bad. But that didn't solve the problem. > > > > Any thoughts on what to try next? > > This sounds like a bad mouse/XF86Config combination - can you send what > kind of mouse it is, and what you have in XF86Config about the mouse? > Some of them want very specific protocols, and play badly if it's wrong. It turned out to be that. I had used an XFree config generated by Redhat's anaconda for the same hardware. Debian's XFree didn't like it, but also hadn't been able to generate a working configuration file. Anaconda had specified both a Mouse0 CorePointer and a Mouse1 SendCoreEvents. Mouse0 was ps2, Mouse1 was psim2. Removing Mouse1 fixed the problem. Thanks for all the help, everyone. -- Jeff Jeff Abrahamson <http://www.purple.com/jeff/> GPG fingerprint: 1A1A BA95 D082 A558 A276 63C6 16BF 8C4C 0D1D AE4B Attachment:
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