[Gllug] Erratic Mouse Behaviour

[Ian Norton]

This is one silly thing that happens alot,
become su
edit the text file /etc/XF86Config-4  (or similar name)
find the 'pointers' section
change the type of mouse from 'intelimouse' to 'IMPS/2'

bred

On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 11:09:04AM +0000, James.Rocks at equant.com wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am new to Linux but got the opportunity to try SuSE Linux 7.1 for ?5 when
> I visited (somewhat ironically) the Windows 2001 eNTerprise Show :-)
> 
> I had successfully configured Linux on a system with Star Office and Kernel
> 2.4
> Here but the mouse is totally crackers! The mouse used at install time was
> a Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer Optical which work fine on any Windows
> system I use. It is attached exactly as for Windows as I am using removable
> disk drives.
> 
> The mouse is almost impossible to control & jumps erratically from point to
> point on the screen with windows popping up and moving.
> 
> I've been looking up on the net and the common solution cited for this is
> hardware (i.e. dirty contacts and so on) but this is not a hardware issue
> as I have tried two mice and both work absolutely perfectly under Win 2K &
> Me. As I say above one mouse is an optical mouse (MS) so I figure it MUST
> be OS support or configuration related.
> 
> For information the hardware I am using is as follows:
> 
> ABit KA7-100 motherboard (with HighPoint ATA 100 bus), Athlon 1Ghz CPU,
> 512Mb RAM, removable hard drives (test drive was a 10Gb UDMA 2 drive), SB
> Live Soundcard, Diamond Viper V770 Ultra video card, Compaq 3132 NIC,
> Microsoft Keyboard & Intellimouse & 17" Belinea (Mitsubishi Diamondtron
> tube) monitor.
> 
> I re-installed the OS as a lower version than 2.4 (2.1.26 I think) and the
> problems seem to have largely disappeared ... does anyone have any idea why
> this is and how I can upgrade successfully to the latest Kernel (if,
> indeed, that is the issue)?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 'Dead
> *****
> James "Undead" Rocks
> E-Mail:    james.rocks at equant.com (work)
> Phone:   07771-767405 (mobile)
> 
> 
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