[Gllug] Erratic Mouse Behaviour

[Wulf Forrester-Barker]

James <James.Rocks at equant.com> enquired:

> The mouse is almost impossible to control & jumps
> erratically from point to point on the screen with
> windows popping up and moving.

Could be a problem with the GPM mouse service. From the bugs section of
the GPM manual page (man gpm):

  The  `gpm' server may have problems interacting with X: if
  your mouse is a single-open device (i.e. a bus mouse), you
  should  kill  `gpm'  before  starting  X,  or use the `-R'
  option (see above).  To kill `gpm' just invoke  `gpm  -k'.
  This problem doesn't apply to serial mice. 

If your machine boots to a graphical login, try pressing Ctrl-Alt-F1 to
jump to a console (caveat - I'm not sure if this will stop the GPM
service causing problems on Ctrl-Alt-F7,the console that normally runs
the graphical X login) to try this. 

Wulf



wulf.f-b at uhl.nhs.uk 

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