[Techtalk] Spastic Mouse After Using Virtual Console

[Johanna Makkonen]

My friend had a similar problem and as I haven't seen any answers to
this one, I'll just tell you what he said fixed it.

If I remember correctly he has RedHat 8.1. He went to
/etc/sysconfig/mouse and changed the lines as follows (had to
comment the last line):

FULLNAME="Generic - 2 Button Mouse (PS/2)"                                                                              
MOUSETYPE="ps/2"                                                                                                        
XEMU3="yes"                                                                                                             
XMOUSETYPE="ps/2"                                                                                                       
DEVICE=/dev/psaux                                                                                                       
#OPTIONS="-t imps2 -m /dev/input/mice -M"                                                                               

Hope this helps.

 - J.

On Sat Jan 25, 2003 at 01:28:50AM +0800, Dom Incollingo wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am using a PS/2 scroll mouse with SuSE 8.1.  The mouse works perfectly, except when I open a virtual console (ctrl-alt-F1, for example) and then return to my graphical session (ctrl-alt-F7). Upon return to my graphical session, the cursor does not work. Any cursor movement seems to be interpreted as clicks rather than pointer movement. Even if I don't try to move the mouse at all, programs start launching automatically, as if the mouse were clicking spastically on various icons.
> 
> If I toggle back through two or three virtual consoles (ctrl-alt-F1, ctrl-alt-F2, for example) and then return to the graphical session (ctrl-alt-F7), the mouse works normally again.
> 
> Here's what I've tried so far to resolve this problem:
> 
> - Checked /var/log/XFree86.0.log to verify that XWindows is using /etc/X11/XF86Config (shown at the end of this note)
> 
> - Verified that XF86Config contains the ServerFlag "AllowMouseOpenFail".
> 
> - Modified the mouse section of XF86Config to use device "/dev/mouse" rather than "/dev/psaux". No improvement.
> 
> - Added /usr/sbin/sysp -s mouse > /dev/null to /etc/init.d/boot.local. No improvement.
> 
> - Disabled 3D acceleration. No improvement.
> 
> - Checked /var/log/warn and /var/log/faillog to see if the problem was reported. Did not find any pertinent messages.
> 
> - Verified that gpm is not running by executing 'ps axw | grep gpm' in the shell. This command did not return any output.
> 
> - Tried starting gpm. No improvement. (Didn't think this would help, but thought it was worth a try.)
> 
> - Made the following change to /boot/grub/menu.lst as per the SuSE Support help:
>   Changed the line:
> 
>    kernel (hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2  hdc=ide-scsi  vga=791
> 
>   to:
> 
>    kernel (hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 acpi=off hdc=ide-scsi vga=791
> 
>     This did not help.
> 
> - Added the following line to /etc/X11/XF86Config as per the SuSE Support help:
> 
>      Option        "SW_cursor"
> 
>    below VendorName "NVidia" of the Section "Device".
>     
>    This change prevented the mouse from working at all, so I had to remove it.
> 
> - Searched newsgroups in google. This problem was reported before, but I did not find any solution.
> 
> Has anyone had this problem and found a way to resolve it?  Thanks very much for your help!
> 
> Dom
> 
> 
> PS/2 scroll mouse (Mitsumi Model-ECM-S5002)
> 
> XF86Config excerpts:
> 
>  Section "ServerFlags"
>    Option       "AllowMouseOpenFail"
>  EndSection
> 
>  Section "InputDevice"
>    Driver       "mouse"
>    Identifier   "Mouse[1]"
>    Option       "ButtonNumber" "3"
>    Option       "Device" "/dev/mouse"
>    Option       "Name" "Autodetection"
>    Option       "Protocol" "imps/2"
>    Option       "Vendor" "Sysp"
>    Option       "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
>  EndSection
> 
> Section "Device"
>   BoardName    "GeForce4 MX 420"
>   BusID        "1:0:0"
>   Driver       "nvidia"
>   Identifier   "Device[0]"
>   Screen       0
>   Option       "Rotate" "off"
>   VendorName   "NVidia"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "ServerLayout"
>   Identifier   "Layout[all]"
>   InputDevice  "Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard"
>   InputDevice  "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer"
>   Option       "Clone" "off"
>   Option       "Xinerama" "off"
>   Screen       "Screen[0]"
> EndSection
> 
> 
> Permissions:
>   lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2003-01-12 06:56 /dev/mouse -> /dev/psaux
>   crw-rw----    1 root   root   10,   1 2003-01-12 06:57 /dev/psaux
> 
> 
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