On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 01:16:17AM -0400, tim wrote: > I am not sure where this problem lies. The mouse seems to work fine > from the console. It also seems to work fine at the kde login screen, > but once kde loads I can not move the mouse smoothing, it mouse jumps > all over the place and adds random mouse clicks.
The problem is that gpm (the console mouse daemon) and X are conflicting with each other. For some reason the Linux psaux driver doesn't do a very good job at abstracting access to the ps/2 mouse interface. This problem never shows up in FreeBSD, which has a better driver for this hardware interface. If you don't use gpm, you can simply remove it. Then X will be able to access the ps/2 port without any trouble. If you do use GPM, then you should be able to tell X (in XF86Config) to use /dev/gpmdata as the mouse device. The protocol information should remain unchanged. noah -- _______________________________________________________ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html
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