On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 02:05:47PM -0500, Bob Glover wrote:
> My brother is having problems with the mouse on a 486 system I gave
> him. We can't figure out why it isn't working correctly. It works with
> Windoze apps and the BIOS bootup menu, but not with XFree86 (3.3.6
> IIRC). We've tried every combination of driver and protocol there is,
> and it still acts crazy! We've tried two serial mice (a trackball and
> some other mouse) and they both do the same thing:
>
> > Another thing I discovered last night was that the mouse will move
> more when
> > I roll the trackball *very* slowly. By move I mean that it jerks
> around
> > usually to the left. When I move the trackball normally, the
> cursor
> > usually stays still and jerks around rarely.
It sounds like you've got the Linux system set for the wrong mouse
protocol. Logitech, MS, and MouseSystems are all different, and you'll
get weird jumpy behavior when it's set wrong.
For text mode screens (where gpm is used) the mouse configuration is
controlled by /etc/sysconfig/mouse. Here's mine:
MOUSETYPE="MouseSystems"
XMOUSETYPE="MouseSystems"
FULLNAME="Mouse Systems (serial)"
XEMU3=yes
since I've got a 3-button MouseSystems clone (a $10 mouse that works
as either MouseSystems or MickeySoft depending on a switch). I run it
in 3-button mode 'cause X can use all 3 buttons if you've got 'em.
For X you configure it in /etc/X11/XF86Config:
Section "Pointer"
Protocol "MouseSystems"
Device "/dev/mouse"
EndSection
According to the X docs on my system, the following are the acceptable types:
o GlidePoint
o IntelliMouse
o Logictech
o Microsoft
o MMHittab
o MMSeries
o MouseMan
o MouseSystems
o ThinkingMouse
This info comes from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/README.mouse which also
contains a lot of other potentially useful info.
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