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

Rajendra Mishra
2005-04-08T05:01:51Z

one workaround u can try is to open a terminal, become
root
and issue following command:
$> /etc/init.d/gpm restart

The problem is due to the incompatibility of KVM with
linux.

regds,
-rpm
On Thu, 07 Apr 2005 13:37:15 -0700
Ray Olszewski <ray@comarre.com> wrote:
> At 11:10 PM 4/7/2005 +0300, caszonyi@rdslink.ro wrote:
>>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
>
> It's also sometimes associated with trying to run X
>locally when a console mouse driver (usually gpm) is also
>running. So check for that too (especially if you reboot
>this system rarely ... you might have fixed this by hand,
>then forgotten you did so).
>
> BTW, depending on the vintage of your system, the X
>config file might be called /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 . To
>sort out the details in it, look for a section called
>"ServerLayout'" and see what mouse-like InputDevice
>entries it has. Then check the sections for them to see
>if they are configured correctly.
>
>Finally, don't rule out the possibility that the KVM
>switch is involved somehow ... if, for example, it is not
>set to connect your mouse to the Linux host when X
>actually starts. I've seen reports on this both ways
>(that it works and that it doesn't) and do not know what
>differentiates the two sets of reports.
>
>
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