[plug] Mouse Cursor

[Sol]

By elusive do you mean it kinda treats the edge of the screen like a 
magnet; or goes completely bonkas whenever you touch it; or that it 
clicks on a spot somewhere to the left (or right) of where the mouse 
cursor is displayed?

I've had all these problems using Debian Woody and XF86 v3.3.6 on 
800x600 monitors. The first two are related to the mouse configuration 
in XF86. I only have PS2 mice, but I often set them as Microsoft mice 
during setup. For some reason this often works for me. I remember I 
tinkered with settings in the config file for a while before I found 
drivers that would work with the mice and it wasn't always what I expected.

It's useful if you've got XF86Setup cos you can test the configuration 
after you've set it. Some people choose to set the mouse to /dev/gpmdata 
and use gpm to configure the mouse. I haven't had much luck with this 
myself.

With regard to the last instance which I experience every so often on 
one machine, I haven't found a solution other than restarting X. A new 
mouse is on the way.

HTH; sol


Garry wrote:

>I've just done a Knoppix to the laptop hdd, all good except the mouse cursor is very f elusive..
>
>Anyone have an easy fix to make the mouse 2-3x normal size, and black? It's just a bit (well ok a lot) hard to keep track of..  8^|==
>
>I'm using 800x600, not excessive on this machine by any means.. Understand its something in /.fonts , but haven't stumbled on a cure yet..
>
>Garry
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