Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4343 mails)

[kathee <kat@xxxxxxxxx>]

I am betting you have some sort of trident video card or similar. This
is the cause.  Change your XFree driver for now to VESA and your mouse
problem will magically disappear.  You will lose a tiny bit of
resolution, but it is much better than having to reboot to clear the
stupid mouse shift.

I have seen this all over the net for years/months and yet there still
seems to be no really fix - even with the latest drivers.  

regardless of your video -- I am betting if you change to VESA you won't
see the problem.And changing the mouse does nothing to fix it either.

-Kat

On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 22:39, Peter B Van Campen wrote:
> Dear Gregory,
> 
> I have seen this once in 8.1 just recently. Only once but I have been working 
> on the HW and rebooting a lot so I can't reproduce it.
> 
> PeterB
> On Tuesday 26 November 2002 09:24 pm, Gregory Sawyer wrote:
> > I've been having this problem recently with my Mouse.  Every so often
> > (fairly frequently), the mouse pointer arrow gets offset by a about "an
> > inch" to the right of where the mouse actually is.  (So when I placed the
> > insertion point between "mouse" and "pointer" above, the actual insertion
> > point is set between "the" and "mouse")
> >
> > This has been happening with two different mice (a "generic" ps/2 mouse and
> > a M$ Intelimouse wheel using both the ps/2 and the USB ports)  I've tried
> > restarting the X server, shutting down to init 1, and so on, but the only
> > thing that seems to cure it is a re-boot.
> >
> > System:   8.0 (2.4.18)  AMD Athelon
> > KDE 3.0
> > Xfree 4.2.0
> 
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> Proud to be a SuSE Linux User since 5.2
> 
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kathee <kat@xxxxxxxxx>