Hello,
I have installed Mandrake Linux 8.1 (Powerpack) on my system.
I have a problem with my mouse. When I try to move the cursor it
goes crazy. It likes to go to the lower left of the screen but it may go
anywhere... So fast it almost seems to just "appear" there. Along
the way it may open menus, move my "menu bar" from along the
bottom of the screen to the left side. (How do I put it back along the
bottom - in Gnome desktop?)
My mouse is a MS Intellimouse Optical. I am using (well, trying
to 8-( ) Xfree86 4.0 so I am looking at xfree86config-4, correct?
It said:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" or "/dev/mouse1" or something
(I changed it to "/dev/psaux")
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
and the cordmiddle option is "#" so it isn't activated.
I have tried various things including reinstalling approximately 15
times now. Nothing changes. I started out with a logitech 2 button
mouse and some keyboard. Was going crazy all over the screen.
Tried reinstalling. Nope. Got the wife to go get a different mouse.
She came home with the intellimouse packaged with the "MS
Internet Keyboard." Still the same behavior. Exactly the same.
Goes crazy opens menus moved my task bar to the left crazy.
At one point I got to the mouse screen where I roll the mouse
wheel to activate. I did, it worked for up down push wheel push left
button push right button. Movement worked. Ok, complete install
still crazy. Two mice two keyboards still crazy. Crazy.
Surely I'm not the only one in existance that can't get mouse to
stop being crazy. What do I need to do that it can't figure out by
itself? Is crazy I say!
Must do in Gnome, KDE locks up at screen. Where blinking
icon "loading window manager" it stops blinking locked up. That is
another problem always in every installation. Will worry about that
later, got option #2 Gnome to work. Mouse crazy in login and
Gnome. Crazy.
Help. Trying to use this "keyboard mouse" emulation is crazy
too, will start moving and stop but pointer keeps to edge of screen
then I have to remember what way I was moving and hit that key
again and then it stops trying to move that way and I can move back.
Sometimes different keys act this way. Noticed I was trying to type
in my user password and it wasn't working. Went back to input user
name to test and sure enough... All my input was in caps, the #'s
were in "@#!@%!"! My shift key was "stuck" so I pressed them and
retyped user, password fine. Is there a conflict between my mouse
and keyboard? Would explain multiple keyboards/mice exhibiting
the same problem? According to the colors on the plugs/ports and
also the labeling I've got them plugged into the correct ps2 ports.
And they work fine in Windows98 (as if that's supposed to be any
colsolation <GRIN>).
I have the bios configured for Plug & Play OS "OFF" like the
installation guide that came with ML8.1PP said to.
Help,
Wes Gregg
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Stuck in Windows where my mouse is a mouse and my
keyboard is a keyboard and they both work fine. 8-(
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