Re: ps2 mouse pointer wanders away
- From: Joel Rees <joel.rees@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2008 08:15:21 +0900
Ed Greshko wrote:
Joel Rees wrote:
I find that I often lose control of the mouse pointer. It seems to happen more when I'm seeding torrents, or running a diff or a message digest check on the download, or doing other things that load the system.
Sempron 2600, single processor, VIA KM400something+8237 chipset, 760M RAM. Generic PS-2 mouse and keyboard.
I can plug in a USB mouse and use that, and sometimes plugging the USB mouse in brings the PS2 mouse back, as well.
In your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file what is mouse protocol set to?
No mouse definition in that file whatsoever.
I thought I'd ssh the whole file over to this box, to prove it, and discovered in the process that, while the interface was set up properly by the installer, the hosts file was set up to tell the fedora 9 box that it was the external interface of my dsl router.
That boggled my mind enough that I forgot to take a copy of what I found in /etc/hosts, so I'm going to have a hard time filing a decent bug report on it.
And, in the process, I discovered that there seems to be an intermittent bug in the language setup, such that I was not able to switch from Japanese to English so I could make sure I understood the firewall settings widget.
And, now, using one of the widgets instead of working directly on the configuration file, I find that the box has forgotten what the dns servers were, so the box is completely off line. And there's something wedged in the firewall, as well, apparently, can't even ping it.
I was going to start a rant about how I didn't expect Fedora 9 to be rawhide, but I helped my wife with the laundry instead and have calmed down a bit. This is, after all, the only way to figure out how to deal with the new security model.
I expect that we'll end up proving that the whole idea of access control lists is a specification level bug, but only time will tell, and I really can't think of any other way of proving it is, other than to subject a mixed technical user group like this to the spec. Something good should shake out of the process, but it won't look much like the theory they teach at school.
I've seen what I think you are describing when set to infrequently seen/used setting. FWIW, the one I use most often is...
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Thanks for reminding me where that file is. I found an example of the mouse definition section on the web, but the problem now is getting the box back on the web first.
I find myself wondering whether I should bother, though. If I've got the time to nurse the box this way, maybe I should just go straight to rawhide.
Thanks.
Joel Rees
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