Chris, do I recall that you live near me (Queenspark)? I have a 2 button, PS2 mouse with ball which was working last week. You can borrow it if you like.
Regards, Robert Some days you are the pigeon, some days you are the statue. -----Original Message----- From: Chris Wilkinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 29 April 2004 3:45 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: KDE/X-win mouse issue... Hi there, Nick Rout wrote: > I had that and it was fixed for a while by cleaning the crud out of the > mouse, since got an optical one. Mine is a budget DSE ball/roller 2-button job. Has worked perfectly until quite recently. It has also been cleaned since this issue began, with no luck in fixing it... > Can also be to do with hardware vs software cursors. OPtions HWcursor > and SWcursor in /etc/X11/XF86Config Neither was set, so I set SWCursor to "on", restarted X, but it made no difference (other than losing the hardware cursor shadow!). It is even becoming difficult to write an email if I move the mouse, so it is now getting a lot worse...herumph! :-( > On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 10:59:21 +1200 > Chris Wilkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Hi there, >> >>Recently my mouse has started doing odd things. It will suddenly jump >>position, and whatever is under it might be selected/activated when >>it moves. Usually it is triggered by me moving it or doing a right >>click action. It usually will jump to the right and up. >> >>Is there a log that might have mouse specific data logged in it? I >>could only think of /var/log/XFree86.0.log, which shows nothing out >>of the ordinary... >> >>Perhaps a device conflict? If so how do I check for a conflict? Its only when I move it, or use a button. It is also sporadic, but today its getting annoyingly frequent...virus perhaps? I might reinstall the X-server files, or reinstall Mandrake... -- Kind regards, Chris Wilkinson, Christchurch, New Zealand.
