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Re: Mouse Problem



> It's kind of funny... but I'm using Microsoft mouse to work with the

I would strongly recommend you to throw away that animal and buy something
more standart-conforming (It is common Micro$oft practic to make
something which would work in windoz only).

But since you are in...

gpm driver seems work better with the mouse than X's.
So you should reroute X's mouse accesses to gpm:
1) Edit /etc/X11/XF86Config

  Section "Pointer"
#    Protocol    "Microsoft"
#    Device      "/dev/mouse"
     Protocol    "MouseSystems"
     Device      "/dev/gpmdata"
2) make fifo file at /dev
  cd /dev
  mkfifo gpmdata
3) Ask gpm to duplicate mouse movements (edit /etc/rc.d/init.d/gpm

        if [ -n "$MOUSETYPE" ]; then
#                daemon gpm -t $MOUSETYPE
                daemon gpm -R -t $MOUSETYPE
        else
#                daemon gpm
                daemon gpm -R
        fi

By the way - it is good method to make middle mouse button to work as
"paste" in X.

> Red Hat 5.0 . The mouse is serial, and connect to COM1. During the
> "startx" command, all the environment is going up without any problem
> except the mouse.
> I use the "mouseconfig" command and the "mouse-test" but without
> any help. The mouse is, of course, in order.
> 
> Any ideas ???
> 
>    Tzvika
> 
> 
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