[Techtalk] Spastic Mouse After Using Virtual Console
Helen Rosseau
hrosseau at vistar.ca
Sun Jan 26 17:12:24 EST 2003
this is what is in my /etc/sysconfig/mouse file
I have a wheel mouse and I am using SuSE8
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more mouse
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#
# Which device is the mouse ? (e.g. "/dev/ttyS0")
#
MOUSE="/dev/psaux"
#
# the gpm protocol for the mouse device from the variable MOUSE
# the default value is defined by YAST
#
GPM_PROTOCOL="imps2"
#
# if the variable GPM_PARAM is empty then gpm will start with option:
# "-t $GPM_PROTOCOL -m $MOUSE"
# otherwise you can fill its own parameters for gpm
#
GPM_PARAM=""
# The full name of the attached mouse.
#
FULLNAME="Intelli/Wheel mouse (Aux-port)"
# The YaST-internal identifier of the attached mouse.
#
YAST_MOUSE="20_imps2"
# The number of buttons of the attached mouse.
#
BUTTONS="3"
# The number of wheels of the attached mouse.
#
WHEELS="1"
# Shall the emulate-3-buttons-mode be turned on under X11?
#
XEMU3="no"
# The mouse type under X11, e.g. "ps/2"
#
XMOUSETYPE="imps/2"
I hope this helps
Helen
On Sunday 26 January 2003 14:01, Johanna Makkonen wrote:
> 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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