Re: Mouse going nuts in RH Linux Enterprise 3 (Taroon)

caszonyi
2005-04-07T20:10:10Z

On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Eve Atley wrote:

>
> Simply put...my mouse has started having a mind of its own in our Redhat
> Enterprise Workstation 3 (Taroon) Linux box. It wants to focus on the bottom
> left-hand corner of the screen, and clicks on whatever happens to be there
> at the time (Languages at login, as an example). When I try to move the
> cursor up towards my destination, it insists on refocusing down at the
> bottom left-hand corner of the screen again. And though I press neither the
> left nor right button, it functions as if I am.
>
> I don't know if any of these are related, but here are a few things which
> lead up to this:
> 1. desktop crashed after a user killed a window through remote VNC - I
> rebooted the machine
> 2. I have an entry in vncserver to start up "root:1" (conflict?) - when a
> user remotely connects via VNC, they see a similar desktop but it's NOT the
> same. I can tell, because windows will pop up in the server that never
> appear in the VNC desktop. Icons layout is identical, however.
> 3. The mouse in question is a scroll-wheel optical (Microsoft) and is
> connected to a KVM switch. It worked perfect fine previous to this.
>
> Any ideas how I can exorcise my mouse? Any corrupted file to examine
> perhaps?
>

see /etc/X11/xorg.conf or /etc/X11/XF86Config

This behaviour is usually associated with wrong driver for mouse

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