Mouse problems

[Bill Mueller]

Hehe, I've been trying this most the morning... glad to hear that I may not
be too far off.

Thanks,
Bill

----- Original Message -----
From: "marciot" <marciot@holly.colostate.edu>
To: <mol-general@lists.maconlinux.org>
Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 1:10 PM
Subject: RE: Mouse problems


> I don't know if the following applies to you, nor do I know if MOL depends
on
> "gdm", but the symptoms are something I've seen before outside of MOL. But
> here is something to try:
>
> See if the mouse work ok under the console in other programs. For example,
try
> this:
>
>    1) Switch to a virtual console (Cntl-Alt-F5)
>    2) Run "emacs"
>    3) See how the mouse behaves
>    4) Quit emacs (Cntl-X Cntl-C)
>    5) Return to X (Cntl-Alt-F7)
>
> The purpose of this experiment is to see whether the mouse operates
correctly
> under "emacs" when in console mode. If it does not, then the particular
> problem you are having is a common one (in fact, it happens on the Linux
box I
> am sitting right now) that has nothing to do with MOL. It has to do with
the
> console mouse driver (gdm) and an incompatibility with PS/2 mice.
>
> Do a "man gdm". If I recall correctly, it has work around for this
problem.
> Once you get it fixed and the above experiment works, then I imagine it
would
> work under MOL too.
>
> Marcio Luis Teixeira
>
>
>
> >===== Original Message From mol-general@lists.maconlinux.org =====
> >Hello all,
> >
> >Was wondering if anyone had any problems getting the mouse to work
correctly
> >when booting MOL from a prompt, rather than in X-windows.  The mouse
works
> >fine in X-windows, but will only move up and right when booted from a
> >prompt.
> >
> >I'm trying to remove the overhead from X-windows.
> >
> >I am using a PS/2 mouse on YDL 2.2, MOL ver 0.9.64-2, MACOS 9.2, kernel
> >2.4.19-rc4.
> >
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