Subject: Re: XFree86-4.0 help: erratic mouse
From: Richard May (rrmay@igc.org)
Date: Thu Jun 15 2000 - 14:20:31 MDT
I am having the exact same problem reported here with my mouse. I used the
rpm's on the linuxppc site and they installed _very_ smoothly. I suspect
the problem is with the kernel.
Can someone confirm this?
Doing a kernelversion reports kernel 2.2
Richard
>
> I've successfully installed XFree86-4.0, and I can "startx" fine, but when I
> do, the following happens: the cursor appears in the middle of the screen,
> and as soon as I move mouse, the cursor becomes stuck/trapped at the bottom
> of the screen. The KDE "toolbar" opens & closes rapidly, but the correlation
> with mouse movement is a mystery. Clicking the mouse buttons has no effect.
> I've successfully run mouseconfig and keybdconfig.
>
> checking var/log/XF86, I see the following:
>
> Symbol XF86FreeInt10 from module
> /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/r128_drv.o is unresolved !
>
> Could this be causing the problem, or be related at all ? Any ideas on
> how to fix this ? BTW, starting up linux, everything seems fine (no error
> messages).
>
> Running CS 1.2, with the included kernel.
>
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