John Thompson wrote:

> On 2004-02-21, hdwhgwe <none@NOSPAM.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 08:55:14 -0300, Paulo Roberto Dallan wrote:
>>
>>> I'm having a little trouble here with my mouse.
>>>
>>> When I boot, gpm works fine (i.e., mouse in console ok). Start KDE, and
>>> the mouse is also ok after the reconfiguring (its a wheelmouse, the
>>> wheel was not originally recognized, but after adjusting xconfig, works
>>> fine).
>>>
>>> The funny thing is, when i exit KDE and go back to console, even if I
>>> log out, my mouse goes crazy in gpm mode (phantom clicks, goes to the
>>> up-right corner etc).
>>>
>>> Does anyone know if this is a known bug, or probably some kind of
>>> misconfiguration?
>>>
>>> Does anyone know how to sort it out?
>
>> I had that once too. Replaced my mouse and it went away, so I assumed it
>> was a hardware thing. Have you tried using another mouse?
>
> I've had that happen as well. But restarting gpm usually clears it up.
>
Well, unfortunately restarting gpm does not work; kill the pid, use gpm -k,
restart it and the mouse gets crazy again... The funny thing: boot, it
works; go to kde, it works; out of kde... kabum.....!

Will try changing the mouse, but not really now (really low pet cash at the
moment lol!)

Thanks to all of you!