[CentOS] Serious desktop/mouse problem in Gnome
Johnny Hughes
mailing-lists at hughesjr.com
Tue Feb 21 23:23:13 UTC 2006
On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 17:09 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> At 04:11 PM 2/21/2006, John Pierce wrote:
> > > To the end of /boot/grub/grub.conf I added the line:
> > >
> > > psmouse.proto=imps
> >
> >Well the psmouse.proto=imps needs to be added to one of the kernel
> >command lines in grub.conf, not on a line by itself.
>
> And???
>
> Here is my grub.conf
>
> default=0
> timeout=5
> splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> hiddenmenu
> title Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (2.6.9-22.0.2.EL)
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-22.0.2.EL ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
> initrd /initrd-2.6.9-22.0.2.EL.img
> title CentOS (2.6.9-22.0.1.EL)
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-22.0.1.EL ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
> initrd /initrd-2.6.9-22.0.1.EL.img
> title CentOS-4 i386 (2.6.9-22.EL)
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-22.EL ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
> initrd /initrd-2.6.9-22.EL.img
>
> where do I put that option?
>
after the "quiet" add a "space" and try psmouse.proto=imps
also try psmouse.proto=bare
you might also try this in /etc/X11/xorg.conf for the mouse driver (that
works for my belkin switch and a logitech scroll mouse):
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
> >I use a msi wireless keyboard and mouse on a kvm and the only time I
> >see erratic mouse behaviour is when the batteries have gotten low and
> >I put in a full charged set.
>
> Well, I just tried new batteries.
>
> No different.
>
> Now I have cascaded KMS. My graphical Centos boxes are at:
>
> Switch 1, 'port' 8
> Switch 2, 'port' 1 (port 6 on Switch 1 is the cascading port)
>
> This system is on Switch 2, 'port' 5
>
> Tomorrow morning, I will move it to port 4 on switch 1 (only open
> port on switch 1) and see what happens.
>
> The frustrating part is that everything was fine until I did that
> java install. folllowed by a yum update (which only pulled down a
> update to yum).
>
> If no change, it is back to reinstall. Maybe that is just as
> well. I had to do a manual disk partition and did not make
> notes. Redoing it will force me to make some notes....
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