Mouse problem w/ Linux GUIs

[Nehima]

I've recently installed Slackware 8.1, and basically I say it doesn't like me. Whenever I start X Windows, Gnome or KDE (I haven't tried any others) the mouse becomes an ass. Once I've entered say Gnome and try to move the mouse, the pointer moves almost to quickly for me to see and always returns to the upper left corner. Then when I run "xf86cfg" or go back in console with the cut/paste text, it becomes a happy mouse and does everything like it should. It is a PS/2 Inland Optical 2-button w/ scroll and as of late I've tried cleaning PS/2 connectors, different driver, reconfiguring junk, yelling at it and throwing it against my wall... if you can think of anything else please advise me and I thank you in advance.

I went to LinuxQuestions.org already, but didn't want to register for an account.

[Chris]

Re: Mouse problem w/ Linux GUIs

Originally posted by Nehima
I've recently installed Slackware 8.1, and basically I say it doesn't like me. Whenever I start X Windows, Gnome or KDE (I haven't tried any others) the mouse becomes an ass. Once I've entered say Gnome and try to move the mouse, the pointer moves almost to quickly for me to see and always returns to the upper left corner. Then when I run "xf86cfg" or go back in console with the cut/paste text, it becomes a happy mouse and does everything like it should. It is a PS/2 Inland Optical 2-button w/ scroll and as of late I've tried cleaning PS/2 connectors, different driver, reconfiguring junk, yelling at it and throwing it against my wall... if you can think of anything else please advise me and I thank you in advance.

I went to LinuxQuestions.org already, but didn't want to register for an account.

Two things. First what mouse option did you choose on setip?
Second, did you look at the XF86Config file? You're problem probably lies in it. I would suggest manually editing it to ensure the correct driver is being used.

[ashman]

Your XF86Config-4 file should look something like this in the pointer section...

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Configured Mouse"
        Driver          "mouse"
        Option          "CorePointer"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/psaux"
        Option          "Protocol"              "PS/2"
        Option          "Emulate3Buttons"       "true"
        Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
EndSection

That should do it.

[Nehima]

I ended up installing Slackware 9.0 and it fixed the problem. I'll look at the config to see what went wrong last time though.