[ale] Wacky Mouse

[Geoffrey]

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.
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> 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.

This sounds like a misconfigured mouse in the X config.  Have you 
verified that's not been changed?


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Until later, Geoffrey