From: u1sjd@ohm.york.ac.uk (Stephen J Daly - H600/91) Subject: Mouse intermittent in X386 Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1993 15:33:29 GMT
Hi,
I am having a teensy bit of trouble running X386 under Linux. I
installed the latest SLS release yesterday and everthing works fine,
I even managed to configure X-windows to give me 1024x730
non-interlaced from my rather cheap monitor which has never done
anything like that before, well anyway back to the plot, I am having
some trouble with my mouse. About 3 out of 4 times that I run X the
mouse refuses to work properly, the pointer jumps all over the
screen randomly as I move the mouse and it thinks I am pressing
buttons when I am not, it basically looks as if it is getting the
data from the mouse but making a mess of interpreting it. However i
can generally cure the problem by switching to another virtual
console ( by pressing <ALT><CTRL><F1> e.g.) and then switching back
to the console with X on. If i do this a few times, the mouse
starts working, and stays working as long as I dont switch consoles
again.
I am using a Microsoft Two button serial mouse in COM1 and
it has worked perfectly with everything in the past. The mouse test
programs hidden in the X386 directory somewhere work fine, (
although they do tend to play up a bit if I already have X386
running in a different console when I run them)...
Unplugging my mouse and plugging it back in doesn't do any
good.....I have been fiddling with all the parameters in the Xconfig
file that I can think of but nothing does any good., I get the
feeling that something else is trying to talk to my serial port and
screwing up the settings for the mouse driver, but I can't find
anything remotely suspicious....
Has anyone seen anything like this before? All suggestions will be
greatly recieved as this is beginning to get annoying.
I wanted to try someone elses mouse but I won't be able to borrow
one for a while and am completely stuck in the meantime. I would
like to try COM2 instead of COM1 but that is 25 way instead of 9 way
and I will have to try and scrounge an adaptor from someone which
may take a while.....Anyway if anyone has any ideas mail me at
sjd8@tower.york.ac.uk
Oh...Just another thing...ghostscript complains about IO permissions
from VGAlib and I can't figure out what it is having trouble writing
to , this doesn't cause me too many problems as I just
run Ghostscript as root which cures it , but it would be nice find
out what the problem was...
Anyway, apart from that everthing works fine, ( and a lot
faster that DOS..)
Byeeee
Steve
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