Re: [PLUG] jumpy mouse

[Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com>]

On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 08:56:40AM -0400, Alex Birch wrote:
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> Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> 
> >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?
> >
> >  
> >
> First run gpm -k as root... then go into your /etc/rc file and get rid 
> of the 20gpm file.

Excellent idea, but there's no gpm:

    krypton:/etc/init.d# apt-cache search gpm
    ...
    gpm - General Purpose Mouse Interface
    ...
    krypton:/etc/init.d# dpkg -l gpm
    Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
    | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
    |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
    ||/ Name           Version        Description
    +++-==============-==============-============================================
    un  gpm            <none>         (no description available)
    krypton:/etc/init.d# ps ax | grep gpm
     7303 pts/1    S      0:00 grep gpm
    krypton:/etc/init.d# ls *gpm*
    ls: *gpm*: No such file or directory
    krypton:/etc/init.d# pwd
    /etc/init.d
    krypton:/etc/init.d#  gpm -k
    bash: gpm: command not found
    krypton:/etc/init.d#  

-- 
 Jeff

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