According to Stan/Miriam Fisher: While burning my CPU.
>
> Gevaerts Frank wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 24 Oct 1998, jorge carvalho pinto wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > well, after many perusing here and there, my startx shows that (ugly??)
> > > graphic window. But.. the mouse is rock dead - the cursor stucks to the
> > > mid of screen and do not respond to any movement/click of the hardware.
> > >
> > > The mouse is ok in Win-nt and even in the (slackware 3.5) console.
> >
> > If you use your mouse on the console (ie you use gpm), there can be
> > problems with it using X. Try stopping gpm first, and then starting X.
> >
> > Frank
> >
> >
> > > any idea outthere??
>
> I have the same problem after the RH 5 installation. I have a ps/2 mouse
> and have tried the *gpm -k* (which I presume is all that is needed to
> turn off the gpm function) command before *startx* but still no movement
> fron the pointer in the middle of the X-window GUI.
> Is that the wrong command or is there some other secret? I read
> somewhere that some of the Logitech/Microsoft ps/2 mice need a 'wake-up'
> signal to be activated. Anybody know if this is so, and if so how to
> implement it?
> Stan Fisher
>
This might sound like a dam stupid question, but do you have your mouse
defined in your XF86Config ??
If so then try starting gpm with the -R option, i am not talking from
experiance this time, i just took a piek at the manual pages.
O yes gpm -k will (should) kill the running gpm process.
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Regards Richard.
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