On 1 Sep, this message from amael echoed through cyberspace: > this is really wearing me down. i think, perhaps this is not an X > problem at all -- i discovered that if i additionally plug in a second > mouse through an usb port (not even configuring it, or loading the > kernel modules actually, though usbcore is loaded already on my system) > the mouse behaviour (of the first mouse) gets even worse. again, it's > not what i experienced before when using the wrong protocol that the > cursor will usually jump to a corner and then more or less stay in that > area, it really is totally random, sometimes i can use the mouse for > about a minute without any sudden jumps or clicks, sometimes it happens > all the time though. > > anyway, the other thing i noticed, when i try to start gpm in the > console the computer crashes and reboots (i did this with and without X > running -- same difference). > > so all this makes me wonder if it is even possible that it is an X > problem? > > meanwhile i installed debian and it works there, so the hardware is ok. > > the big difference (i think) is that gentoo uses the dynamic devfs -- > but i don't know anything much about it, so i am not sure if this could > cause behaviour like this. > > any suggestions would be highly appreciated!
Hm, are you sure you don't have gpm running at the same time and feeding additional mouse events to X? Or that gpm and X both read mouse info and each only gets half of it? Is this with /dev/psaux (or whatever it's called), i.e. old-style mouse driver, or with /dev/input/mice (i.e. new input layer)? Cheers Michel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michel Lanners | " Read Philosophy. Study Art. 23, Rue Paul Henkes | Ask Questions. Make Mistakes. L-1710 Luxembourg | email [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cpu.lu/~mlan | Learn Always. " _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
