Bill,

ps ax |grep gpm will tell you the PID of the gpm driver.  kill it.

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Sincerely,

David Smead
http://www.amplepower.com.

On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, William Binkley wrote:

> I'm a debian newbie, with a seriously jumpy mouse pointer. I installed the
> isolinux woody mini-CD then used dselect and apt-get to finish installing X
> and gnome and enlightenment. There was plenty of opportunity for
> misconfiguration...
>
> Now (in gnome) the mouse pointer jumps and skitters around the screen,
> seemingly randomly, and can only with great difficulty and concentration be
> made to do anything useful. the pointer does sometimes respond to physically
> moving the mouse, so it is not totally random. It is a dual-boot system, and
> the other OS is redhat 7.0, and the same mouse and keyboard work perfectly
> well when I boot redhat, so I don't think it is a hardware issue.
>
> I have no idea where to start to try to fix this. The mouse is a microsoft
> intellimouse (a PS/2 wheelmouse-- 2 buttons and a wheel).
> the mouse lines from my XF86Config-4 file (typed not copied) are:
>
> Section "Input Device"
>       Identifier      "Configured Mouse"
>       Driver  "mouse"
>       Option  "CorePointer"
>       Option  "Device"        "/dev/psaux"
>       Option  "Protocol"      "ImPS/2"
>       Option  "Emulate3Buttons"       "true"
>       Option  "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated...  --Bill
>
>
>


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