[plug] X cursor when switching from console

Michael De Santis michael at harvestroad.com
Wed Oct 25 08:22:06 WST 2000


Hi,

I also experience a similar problem as you have described below. I've
noticed that it seems to be related to hard disk activity although
unfortunately I don't have  an answer for you to correct it.

Michael


Andrew Furey wrote:

> List,
>
> I have a Honeywell TS-3 PS2 mouse which I've just
> replaced my old serial mouse with. For those who don't
> know, this has the two buttons in the normal place, a
> third button on the left hand side which is the
> "middle" one, and TWO scroll wheels - vertical and
> horizontal.
>
> The plain Intellimouse driver seems to work OK, and
> enlightenment and gimp make use of the third button,
> if not the scroll wheels (not really a problem, might
> fix one day :).
>
> Only problem is, if I switch back into X from the
> console, I get a couple of spontaneous mouse clicks,
> and the cursor jumps up to the top right corner and
> becomes unusable. Restarting X fixes it, but that's
> not really satisfactory...
>
> I tried turning off 3button emulation, but it seemed
> to have no effect either way.
>
> Anyone run into one of these, or a similar problem?
>
> TIA
>
> Andrew
>
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