Re: Mouse config troubles

["John J. Donohue" <jdonohue mcallen lib tx us>]

On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Gabriel Robichaud wrote:

> I am unable to use my mouse with x windows on red hat 5.2.    I have run
> mouseconfig more times than I can count trying all the configs.  My mouse is
> just a regular 3 button mouse.  The weird thing is, when i'm not using X
> windows, i can move the cursor.  I see the grey rectangle move around the
> screen, i can select text and copy it to the prompt.  But, when i run x
> windows (startx) I cant get the cursor to do anything.

try shutting down the gpm mouse utility ( gpm -k ) before doing startx