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Re: Problems with mouse under X
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hans von Lengerke)
Wed Dec 2 09:30:20 1998
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 14:27:31 +0000
From: Hans von Lengerke <hans@peritas.com>
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On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Mathias Bjorkman wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have problems on a pc using a mouse under X.
> The mouse works under the console but when
> i start up X with "startx" the mouse-arrow just freezes
> and refuses to work, or it swirls uncontrollable over
> the screen, what might be wrong here?
I used to have this problem and the problem turned out to be gpm (the
utiltiy that enables the mouse under the console). I found two
workarounds:
a) Before Starting X I'd do a 'mouseconfig --kickstart'
b) Uninstall gpm and all references to it in /etc/rc.d/*
HTH,
Hans
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