Mouse malfunctioning after configuring graphics cards driver
Hi, don't know if this is the correct forum, but I'll give it a try. I had a fully functional SuSE 8.0 installed on my computer, but was going to try to install ATI's drivers for my Radeon 8500 card - I'd like to fully exploit my hardware... I followed ATI's recipe for installing and configuring the driver; having done it already on a SuSE 8.1 install I felt certain that it would at least function equally well as before at least in 2D (3D apps tended to crash after a couple of minutes). However, after configuring the driver and restarting my X server, my mouse malfunctioned. The mouse pointer was situated in the middle of the screen when the X server started and the login window appeared; however, as soon as I even touched the mouse, the mouse pointer flashed and raced up in the upper right corner of the screen. My mouse, btw, is a PS2 Logitech Mouseman (4 buttons, no wheel). Any hints as to how to fix the problem, or even how to uninstall the ATI display drivers and revert to my functioning Xfree-setup?? Thanks, Magnar Olsen Trondheim, Norway.
Any hints as to how to fix the problem, or even how to uninstall the ATI display drivers and revert to my functioning Xfree-setup??
Well, I haven't managed to get the hardware accellaration working properly with my ATI card yet (the ATI configuration not working at all for me), but I might be able to give some assistance. :) On my machine, the old XF86Config file was still available in the /etc/X11 directory. The ATI config file is named XF86Config-4 in that same directory. You should be able to restore your old situation by removing (or safer perhaps: moving) the XF86Config-4 file. You might be able to fix your mouse by copying the mouse section from your XF86Config file to the XF86Config-4 file, overwriting the mouse settings in that last file of course. Regards, Pieter Hulshoff
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