> Hi,
>
> My beloved laptop is afflicted with a new disease (bug), never noticed before
> upgrading to RH7.3+KDE3.0.1, and I don't know what to blame. Sometimes, as I
> am working and X is on, the mouse pointer suddenly ceases to represent the
> actual coordinates of this critter (actually, it's a touchpad), and is about
> 1.5 cm to the left of it's actual, invisible location. Today I paid special
> attention to this problem and noticed that
> * gpm was not affected; in console mode the mouse was doing just fine
> * restarting X didn't help
> * deleting (uhm, backing up) ~/.kde/ did not help
> * running qtconfig turned up no interesting info
> * warm rebooting did not help
> * only a cold reboot helped
>
> Does this sound familiar? The fact that warm rebooting did not help points to
> a hardware problem, but why now? And why is gpm not behaving badly?
>
> Your help is truly appreciated,
>
> Arie Folger
> --
> It is absurd to seek to give an account of the matter to a man
> who cannot himself give an account of anything; for insofar as
> he is already like this, such a man is no better than a vegetable.
> -- Book IV of Aristotle's Metaphysics
>
Are you sure there isn't some kind of collision between X and gpm? Such
problem is known for non serial mouses, although I am not sure when it
does manifest itself and when it does not.
Quoting the gpm man page:
-Rname Causes `gpm' to act as a repeater: any mouse data
received while in graphic mode will be produced on
the fifo `/dev/gpmdata' in protocol name. In prin-
ciple, you can use the same names as for the `-t'
option, although repeating into some protocols may
not be implemented for a while. In addition, you
can specify `raw' as the name, to repeat the mouse
data byte by byte, without any protocol transla-
tion. If name is omitted, it defaults to `msc'.
Using gpm in repeater mode, you can configure the X
server to use its fifo as a mouse device. This
option is useful for bus-mouse owners to override
the single-open limitation. It is also an easy way
to manage those stupid dual-mode mice which force
you to keep the middle button down while changing
video mode. The option is forced on by the `-M'
option.
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