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On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 09:45:18PM -0400, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> I have not used gentooo, but I _have_ had the mouse-wackies before. It
> hsa always been due to the wrong mouse driver (i.e. ps2 on a logitech,
> etc). If you are in X, get out. Stop gpm. reconfigure the mouse for
> console use. reconfigure the mouse for X. restart X. cross fingers...
> 
> On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 20:37 -0400, David Corbin wrote:
> > I posted this yesterday to gentoo-user, but I've not gotten much response, and 
> > my laptop is largely unsusable, so I thought I'd ask here too.
> > -----
> > Today, my mouse has gone wacky.  Previously I had a fine working Gentoo/X11 
> > system on my Dell I8600.  A week ago, upgraded my profile, and updated the 
> > system, including switching to udev. I had no problem for the last week, so I 
> > believe that all worked well.
> > 
> > Today, I did another update ("emerge -uavD world"), and started to muck with 
> > user-mode linux.  This did necessitate a rebuild of my kernel, and a reboot.  
> > When I was done, my pointer is wacky.
> > 
> > "Wacky" mean the pointer is largely "stuck" near the bottom left corner of the  
> > display.   Any attempt to move it generates a great deal of flashing of the 
> > pointer.  When I start X, the pointer appears dead center of the screen, 
> > until I touch the touchpad at which point it jumps to the bottom left area of 
> > the screen.
> > 
> > I've reviewed what was emerged, and I don't think anything is likely to have 
> > caused this problem.  I've tried changing my config to not use the synaptics 
> > drive, but that had no effect.
> > 
> > Any ideas?
> > David
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