Have to re-startx; mouse goes wonky

walterbyrd · 01-31-2007, 08:56 PM

Debian etch, running gnome, USB mouse.

Two mouse related problems:

1) When the GUI first comes up, it does not detect my mouse. I have to ctrl-alt-F1 out, rm /tmp/.X0-lock, the run startx agains.

2) After a while, my mouse goes "wonky." I am not sure how else to describe it. I lose control of my mouse, my pointer doesn't follow my mouse.

I dual boot w2k/debian. Mouse works perfectly on the windows side.

slackass · 01-31-2007, 09:20 PM

does x know it's a usb mouse?

Try this

run:

su
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

to reconfig. x to detect the usb mouse