Re: Erratic PS/2 Mouse in 2.1.126

Pavel Machek (pavel@bug.ucw.cz)
Wed, 4 Nov 1998 14:45:12 +0100


Hi!

> About a month ago I had trouble with Alan Cox's patches to 2.1.124.
> Specifically, my PS/2 mouse movement was erratic. If the mouse is in
> motion, there is an N% chance it will jump upward and to the right.
> Sometimes the software (X) reacts as if one of the buttons has
> been pressed.

What type of ps/2 mouse it is? If it is something like intelimouse, it
may be cause, because that beasts produce 4byte packets on request.

Also, you might want to run gpm in repeater mode, and make X read from
/dev/gpmdata.
Pavel

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