Re: Sometimes no mouse

[Andy Davidson <pheon hevanet com>]

Yes, I am.  Or was.  I have replaced the mouse with another, three-button
mouse and the problem has gone away.

But I am curious: what could possibly be in the mouse that would cause that
problem?  I have always thought of mice as rather benign devices.

Thanks for the help.

	andy

p.s. I couldn't find a mouse link from your very nice site at
http://www.moongroup.com/unix/

At 08:56 AM 9/3/98 -0400, Chuck Mead wrote:
>On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, Andy Davidson wrote:
>
>> I just recently installed RedHat 5.1 onto another PC. 
>> 
>> When I start X, sometimes I have no mouse.  The cursor shows in the middle
>> of the screen, but it won't move.  If I can toggle to an xterm window and I
>> am root, I can run 'mouseconfig --kickstart' and almost always get the
>> mouse to work.  If I am not root, running mouseconfig doesn't help.
>> 
>> Anybody got a clue where my problem might lie?  The mouse is a standard
>> Micorsoft serial mouse on /dev/cua0.  It works fine in Windows 95.
>> 
>
>You're running a M$ mouse which is version 2.1A or higher aren't you?
>(look at the bottom of the mouse to check).  If you are go get a M$ "Home
>Mouse" (one of the blue colored ones) and your troubles will be over.
>Version 2.1A or higher changed something in the way the mouse is configed
>and Linux (gpm) doesn't like it. See the link "/unix/" in my sig for more
>info.
>
>Cheers!
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