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Re: Mouse problems
- Subject: Re: Mouse problems
- From: "Nagarajan V." <a0756552@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 09:32:31 +0530
All,
Thanks to all of you who answered to the question I had posed
regarding configuring the mouse. I changed the XF86Config file
as suggested by Shanker Balan below and have got the thing working
perfectly.
Regards,
Nagaraj
> From shanu@xxxxxxxx Tue Jun 29 20:45:40 1999
> Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 20:33:02 +0530
> From: Shanu <shanu@xxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: Mouse problems
>
> "Nagarajan V." wrote:
>
> When I login and run startx KDE is
> > invoked but I find that I have absolutely no control over the
> > way the cursor behaves. Even a slight movement of the mouse
> > makes the cursor jump around with windows popping up and closing
> > by themselves.
> >
> > Nagaraj
>
> If ur mouse is a standard 3 button serial mouse then
> /etc/X11/XF86Config should look like this...
>
> Section "Pointer"
> Protocol "Microsoft"
> Device "/dev/mouse"
> EndSection
>
> If it is a Ps2 mouse then change the protocol to "PS2". If this docent
> work then u need to change the mouse resolution. Add this line in the
> pointer section. Experiment with diff values.
>
> Resolution 100 # other possible values 200/300
> -------------------------------------------------------==(SHANU)==--
> Shanker Balan Debian/GNU Linux 2.1
> St. Alberts College
> Cochin
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