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

["Rajendra Mishra" <rpm@solidcore.com>]

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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