On Wed, 2002-02-27 at 14:52, sam wrote: > > Rather than go into a lot of detail on my problems, I would prefer to get > a reliable reference to a comprehensive discussion about the installation > and trouble shooting of mice. I am currently using Woody (Debian 3.0), a > ps/2 modem, AMD 500 Mhz cpu -- in other words, nothing very unusual or > fancy. > > > If no good reference exists, can some computer science or engineering > instructor suggest this topic to one of their more adventurous students as > a term project, or even as a Masters thesis. By the way, I don't > understand why many exchanges on the Debian lists refer to unpredictable > mouse problems from unknown sources: Are mice and their software really > stochastic machines, or are those people merely as ignorant as I am > (which is very)? > > Thanks for any help.
Well, without knowing exactly what your problem is, most of the fixes have been the same - remove gpm because it gets in the way (having both X and gpm trying to access the mouse simultaneously is bad karma) and make sure you have the correct device and driver specified in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. I suspect that anything more serious ends up being a "replace the mouse, they're cheap" solution, just because it would take more time and money to troubleshoot and repair than to just buy another one - but that's just my take on it.
