crazy mouse

[Joshua Lokken]

* Tsu-Fan Cheng <tscheng at ic.sunysb.edu> [2004-04-24 16:35]:
> Hi bsder,
>    I just changed a new m/board and found my mouse went crazy, it's out of
> control most of the time and tends to stay in one corner and "shakes"
> itself. it is a generic PS/2 mouse, 2 buttons, no special something, no
> scroller, no nothing. i tried to change "Protocol" in my XF86Config, tried
> "PS/2" "auto" "SysMouse" "IntelliMouse", up to now only "SysMouse" works,
> by work, I mean I sort of can control it when I try very hard. other
> protocols make some pull-down menu automatically showed up and blink, I
> use xfce4 as my x-win. my graphic is Savage chip. my mouse is driving me
> crazy, HHEEEELLLPPPPPP!!! (m/board is ECS L7VMM3).
 
Section "InputDevice"

    Identifier                  "Mouse1"
    Driver                      "mouse"
    Option "Protocol"           "Auto"
    Option "Device"             "/dev/sysmouse"

EndSection

in XF86Config really should do it for you, if not, post what you've got,
and check /var/log/XFree86.0.log for any clues to what the specific
problem may be.

-- 
Joshua

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