Tracy Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have installed X Windows and my mouse has a mind of its own. X > starts fine but when i move my mouse it zips across the screen at an > incrediable Mach 5 at least. I have a microsoft compatable mouse > and my graphics card is a Diamond Stealth 64 SE and the server that i > am using is S3. I can install Linux universe by unifix and > everything works o.k. I have even tried using the exact same > XF86Config file from linux universe and and the mouse does the same > thing. Any suggestions?
I have had a similar problem, but have not got round to reporting it before. The mouse is fine for down-right movements, but other directions zip off to the edge of the screen. I get the problem with both X and gpm. I did a hexdump on /dev/mouse. When I moved the mouse down-right, the bytes come in groups of three. In other directions, they are in groups of two, and three. I did the same tests on a different machine, and got groups of three all the time. (Same mouse, different hardware. Mouse works fine.) The problem computer is a "Swift" PCI machine, with two 16550A serial ports (as reported by setserial). I'm using a self compiled kernel, (1.2.13), but had the same trouble with the distributed kernel. I've got Debian 0.93R6 installed. I hope some of this means something to someone. :) +-----------------------------------------+----------------------+ | Neil Turton, Assistant computer officer | Snail Mail to: | | | Churchill college, | | e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Cambridge. CB3 0DS. | +-----------------------------------------+----------------------+ | GCM(M) d H s+:- !g p0>+ !au(-) a- w+ v C+++@ UL++++$(+++) P+ | | L+++ 3- E++ N-(+) K- W--- M-- V po Y+ t-- 5 !j R- G? !tv(-) | | b+ D+ B? e+++ u(*) h-- f !r>+++ n+ y? | +----------------------------------------------------------------+
