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Re: Mouse problems



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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