[plug] Losing Mouse control in X

[Arkem (Paul)]

On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Leon Blackwell wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 05:37:22PM +0800, Arkem wrote:
> > I'm having problems keeping control over my mouse in X, I have read the
> > archives and did learn quite a bit from the previous thread on this topic but
> > none of the solutions helped me any. I occasionly lose control of my mouse and
> > it will go randomly (though often to the top right corner) and it will start
> > clicking and windows start minimising its a quite annoying habit making X
> > nearly ununsable to me.
> 
> I used to have a similar problem (my mouse would sometimes act as
> described when I switched from a virtual console back to X), but
> no one was ever able to explain what caused the trouble.
> 
> I eventually solved it by upgrading gpm to a newer version and
> using it entirely.  It seemed to only ever cause troubles when
> multiple applications used to mouse -- as if one using the data
> stream would somehow cause the other to lose sync.
> 
> Are you, by any chance, running anything else that might be
> accessing the mouse port directly (not through gpm)?  Perhaps an
> svga game or something similar?

Actually no, only X and gpm... I changed my settings around so that gpm didn't
repeat and X read /dev/psaux too but that didn't help the problem. Odd though
is that if my mouse freezes or acts up particularily bad sometimes killing and
restarting gpm fixes it (temporarily).

I don't know whether the fault lies with X, gpm, my configuration or my
hardware except that I vaugely remember reading somewhere that my mouse is
supported.

- Paul Chamberlain