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I have just installed Debian 3.0r2 on an old Gateway I had laying around. Any way, when the X server starts up the mouse does all sorts of crazy things. The mouse is a PS2 microsoft 2-button mouse. It sticks to the top of the screen and clicks abunch when I try to move it. So I tried changing the xconfig to use the driver IMPS/2 instead of the Microsoft one. Now the mouse sticks to the bottom of the screen instead of the top. Just to verify that the mouse was actually good I did put a known to be good PS2 mouse in the port and same thing happened. Any one have any idea as to what I could do to fix this thing or what it might be. Thanks.
Make the following changes to your xorg.conf (or equivalent file);
in Server Flags put
Code:
Option "AllowOpenMouseFail" "true"
in the mouse device section use,
Code:
Identifier "YOUR IDENTIFIER" #keep it the same as yours or nothing will work
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" #only for scroll mouse....the space is important
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Button" "true" #or false as you desire
Option "Emulate3Timeout" "true" #or false as you desire
Option "SendCoreErrors" "true"
might work, might not. Works for KVMs that exhibit the bahaviour when switching from XP to Linux (sometimes).
Sorry man. I tried it and had no luck. But thanks for the response. The mouse now just does't move or click at all. Which I guess could be progress. Still trying to find something that will work and still no luck so if anyone knows please help. Thanks.
Hey. I was just going to let you know that I got it working. In fact I'm typing this on it now. What I did that made it work was I changed the protocol to PS/2 and it worked. Weird huh. Thanks for your help though and man I forgot how slow a Pentium 166Mhz is under X.
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