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Re: maybe OT - trackball sensitivity



On Fri, 7 Jul 2000 solomon@barak-online.net wrote:

> A few days ago, I had to reboot to install a new modem. Only later, I realized
> that the sensitivity on my trackball went to hell the same day. I had almost no
> control in GNOME and the cursor just wandered all over the place. When I

most probably not the sensitivity but the serial port's baud rate. try
to switch out of X with ctrl-alt-F1, kill gpm, and switch back to X
(usually alt-F7), sork for me every time.

> realized that this had started the same day I re-booted, I decided to shut down
> and boot the computer. This solved the problem and all is well now, but does
> anyone have an idea what could have caused this ???

fluke in the Xserver, gpm and X in conflict, bug in the distribution's
configuration, bad hair day... 

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