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#1 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 06:05 PM

Hi,

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?

Thanks!

Paulo

#2 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 06:08 PM

On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 08:55:14 -0300, Paulo Roberto Dallan wrote:

> Hi,
>
> 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?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Paulo

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?

#3 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 06:09 PM

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.

--

-John (JohnThompson@new.rr.com)

#4 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 06:09 PM

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!

#5 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 06:09 PM

Paulo R. Dallan wrote:
>
> 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!)

Sounds like you may be using the wrong driver for it.

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#6 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 06:09 PM

David wrote:

> Paulo R. Dallan wrote:
>>
>> 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!)
>
> Sounds like you may be using the wrong driver for it.
>

Its a Genius NetScroll + PS/2 mouse (wheelmouse, wheel is also the 3rd
button), configured for gpm (/etc/rc.d/rc.gpm) as:

/usr/sbin/gpm -m /dev/mouse -t imps2 -3

And configured in XF86config (for KDE), as:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "ZaxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
EndSection

Am I forgetting something, or doing something wrong?

Thanks in advance!

Paulo

#7 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 06:09 PM

Paulo R. Dallan wrote:
> David wrote:
>>
>>Sounds like you may be using the wrong driver for it.
>
> Its a Genius NetScroll + PS/2 mouse (wheelmouse, wheel is also the 3rd
> button), configured for gpm (/etc/rc.d/rc.gpm) as:
>
> /usr/sbin/gpm -m /dev/mouse -t imps2 -3
>
> And configured in XF86config (for KDE), as:
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Mouse1"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
> Option "ZaxisMapping" "4 5"
> Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
> EndSection
>
> Am I forgetting something, or doing something wrong?

Have you tried any of the other PS/2 Protocol options to see if
they work? You might find one of these links to be helpful. They
both show using the NetScrollPS/2 instead of the IMPS/2 Protocol.

NetScroll PS/2
http://library.n0i.net/linux-unix/ap...mouse6.html#29

NetScrol Optical PS/2
http://library.n0i.net/linux-unix/ap...mouse6.html#31

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