Crazy mouse in Slackware 8
 

Hi,
I got Slackware 8 installed just fine. Having some trouble
with the X configuration though. When X starts, the NVIDIA
driver logo comes up (like it did in redhat), then while the
background is that black and white fuzzy stuff that you
always see before your WM starts loading, the cursor moves from
the center right up over to the upper right hand corner, which
it stays in through the GNOME loading and I can't get it out
of the corner. The mouse is just a standard PS/2 and does
the same thing in gpm.
XFree 4.1
Kernel 2.4.13
NVIDIA Drivers, latest version
NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX

Can anyone help me out? Thanks,
Ben Weintraub, Portland OR

yes, i used to have the same problem.

is your mouse a microsoft intellimouse thingy?

anyway, open up your XF86Config file, it should be in /etc/X11/ .

go down to the section that refers to the mouse
(Core Pointer's InputDevice section)

and then change the line with the protocol on it so it reads

then the line below this make sure that it points to /dev/psaux

this is how mine is set and it all works just peachy :-)

Alex

Dont you want your mouse wheel to work on your ps/2 mouse?

thanks
 

ive been looking for how to do that ( i read it somewhere ages ago and then promptly forgot)

Alex

Thanks a bunch. I got it working now, and with mouse wheel support (woohoo!)