Ok, time to *ask* a question rather than give out the wrong ones ;)
I've just been installing Debian unstable (woody) on my new machine.
It's got a lovely Intellimouse Explorer (the silver one with the red
glowing aura around it ;), however, it will go haywire at random
intervals. The pointer will shoot up to the top right hand corner,
possibly generating button events, too.
This is with gpm in text mode or in X.
I've found also that rolling the scroll-wheel somehow resets the mouse,
and then everything will be fine for another 37 seconds (where 37 is
really some random value).
I'm using XFree86 3.3.6, kernel 2.2.16. gpm I have disabled, so it
doesn't come into the picture -- i don't use it anyway.
The relevant section of /etc/X11/XF86Config:
Section "Pointer"
Protocol "IMPS/2"
Device "/dev/mouse" # /dev/mouse is symlinked to /dev/psaux
Resolution 100
Buttons 7
ZAxisMapping 4 5
SampleRate 150
BaudRate 9600
EndSection
The Buttons and ZAxisMapping values are for making the scroll wheel
work; the SampleRate, BaudRate and Resolution values I found from
another mailing list where a similar problem was mentioned. The
recommended solution was to modify SampleRate until the mouse stablized.
I've adjusted the SampleRate value from 1 to 150 with no discernable
difference at all.
The bizzare thing is when I installed SuSE 6.4 Evaluation, on the same
hardware, this didn't happen at all. Well, I lie... if you modified the
config using their excellent tool 'sax' then the mouse did go haywire,
but if you rolled the mouse wheel then it reset and _would_not_break_
until you modified the mouse config again.
I'm going nuts with this. Quake 3 Arena's no fun when you randomly
look straight up and start firing in the middle of a skirmish.
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jamesw
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