[mouse problems in ydl]

[Jared Pedroza]

I too am having some issues in YDL 2.3 with my trackpad. The trackpad=20
is extremely jumpy. When I plug an external mouse into the USB port the=20=

cursor movement is nice and fluid. Any thoughts?

Jared Pedroza

PS-This is on a Powerbook G3(Bronze Kbd)
On Wednesday, April 2, 2003, at 08:35  AM, Jonathan Walton wrote:

> I had a different mouse problem on YDL, relating to the trackpad... =
but
> I wonder if my fix would help you.  Specifically, if I didn't have a
> real mouse plugged in, my trackpad wouldn't work.  I solved it by=20
> adding
> the following to /etc/sysconfig/mouse.  [to be honest, just running =
the
> 'ln -s' once by hand was probably sufficient]:
>
>   # Probably doesn't belong here, but it'll work.  On powerbook =
without
>   # mouse plugged in on boot, we don't get a /dev/mouse... but X and a
>   # few others expect it.  Just hack it the same way=20
> /usr/lib/yi/mouse.py
>   # does it
>   if grep -i "PowerBook" /proc/cpuinfo >/dev/null; then
>    if [ ! -e /dev/mouse ]; then
>     ln -s /dev/input/mice /dev/mouse
>    fi
>   fi
>
> Good luck,
>   Jonathan
>
>> On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Benjamin Dembroski wrote:
>>> One wee problem. If I use the graphical login option to X, the mouse
>>> pointer is dead. All is fine with the text based login. ANy=20
>>> suggestions
>>> where to start? I googled looking for the answer, but the link to =
the
>>> solutions page in YDL seems to be broken. (points to a page=20
>>> discussing
>>> updating to YDL 3).
>>
>> Mike Newman said:
>> i have almost exactly the same problem, except that it only happens=20=

>> if a
>> logout and try to login again. ie: the first boot goes normally.
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