From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: caszonyi@rdslink.ro Subject: Re: Mouse going nuts in RH Linux Enterprise 3 (Taroon) Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 23:10:10 +0300 (EEST) Message-ID: References: <009301c53bac$15bb7e70$540aa8c0@lanadmin> Reply-To: Calin Szonyi Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <009301c53bac$15bb7e70$540aa8c0@lanadmin> Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Eve Atley Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org 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 -- ? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs