Gyration Ultra GT Wireless Optical/Gyroscopic Mouse problems

Prismatic · 01-17-2004, 10:02 PM

I have a Gyration Ultra GT mouse (as described in title, (remove the *s) h*t*tp**:/*/w*ww*.*gy***r*at*ion*.c**o*m/*ul*trag**t.htm) and am trying to get it to work on Mandrake 9.1. At first it was just seen as an unknown USB device, but today I booted up when it's batteries were fully recharged and it was detected. It now acts as an amazingly good taskbar-screwer-upper. When used as an optical mouse, it acts correctly except for the bit where it randomly right- and left-clicks everything in sight, and when used in midair, it does what I just described, as well as zipping back to the lower left corner of the screen whenever I stop using it. In both modes the scroll wheel doesn't scroll, it only clicks. I think this is merely a problem of not having a good driver, but where can I get one?

Prismatic · 01-18-2004, 08:35 PM

Now (rebooted) it doesn't see the mouse at all.

Aussie · 01-19-2004, 01:43 AM

Try disabling GPM if it's running, and also have a good look at the pointer section of /etc/X11/XF86Config(-4), the incorrect protocol can sometimes cause problems like this.

Prismatic · 01-25-2004, 02:49 PM

still doesn't work. What's GPM? I did a killall -9 GPM, said no processes killed. Where is the pointer section? Please I want to get this mouse working!

Aussie · 01-25-2004, 04:22 PM

The pointer section is usually about 1/2 way down the file.

Prismatic · 01-27-2004, 06:42 PM

Can't seem to find it...

physans · 02-10-2004, 12:18 PM

Did you find a solution to this? I also just purchased this mouse and am having problems setting it up in Mandrake 9.1. Even worse, I'm trying to make it work with Synergy ( http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ ) for the ultimate setup, but I won't start discussing the problems associated with that...

Edit:
This site may help: http://www.mail-archive.com/perl-tra.../msg00334.html

Aussie · 02-10-2004, 03:59 PM

I've read that thread, my problem is I have both the gyration mouse and keyboard, they both get recognized at boot - but the mouse she still don't work :-(
I'm still working on it.

Prismatic · 02-12-2004, 10:45 PM

No, didn't find a fix, checking website...

Likosin · 08-10-2004, 08:02 PM

Hey, Prismatic and physans:
I am planning to buy the gyration mouse, and just had a simple question:
Does the mousewheel click? I mean, will i have a middle click button with this mouse? Please reply to this thread, email me at jcurry@eliteproxy.com, or get me on aol, by nick is 'onejackcurry'
Thanks!