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Negorath

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Registered: 2008-03-05

Posts: 6

Problems with inresponsive mouse behavior

Hello,
Rather new to ArchLinux, and I'm having a problem getting my mouse to work properly, I've done a lot of searching and tried various solutions to problems that sounded similiar but to no avail sadly

Anyway On to the problem:

Mouse works fine if I leave it alone for a bit, or I have just booted up, but after a few minutes of use it will start spacing out, lights on it will blink on and off, obviously loosing connection with the computer only to reconnect, this makes controlling the mouse in WM rather annoying. Doesn't mather what mouse I use, or which port I plug it in to, have tried various brands and both USB and PS/2, but no mather I get the same erratic behavior no mather how I put it. I've tried playing around with xorg.conf and rc.conf but no changes I make seem to do a difference.
For reference I also had this problem with FreeBSD, which was actually what led me to try ArchLinux instead.

Snippet from my xorg.conf:

Section "InputDevice"
           Identifier "Mouse0"
           Driver "mouse"
           Option "CorePointer"
           Option "Protocol" "auto"
           Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
           Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

I suspect it maybe can be Xorg, but the lights on the mouse will blink even without me having started up a WM, but I guess some xorg processes might be running in the background even at the terminal.

Any suggestions would be helpfull

Last edited by Negorath (2008-03-05 20:23:48)

Negorath

Member

Registered: 2008-03-05

Posts: 6

Re: Problems with inresponsive mouse behavior

Just tried using "evdev" as Driver instead of "mouse", mouse seemed to last a bit longer than usual before it went spastic, but same problem still occured.

gav616

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Registered: 2008-01-16

Posts: 182

Re: Problems with inresponsive mouse behavior

mine works ok.. but anything below xset m 1 1 i.e. xset 1/4 1, it stops half way sometimes.. using:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier    "Configured Mouse"
        Driver        "mouse"
        Option         "CorePointer"
        Option        "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
        Option        "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
        Option        "Buttons" "7"
        Option        "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
        Option        "ButtonMapping" "1 2 3 6 7"
        Option        "Emulate3Buttons" "0"
        Option        "Resolution" "2000"
        Option         "SampleRate" "1000"
EndSection

using a razer copperhead mouse

Last edited by gav616 (2008-03-06 00:16:26)

Negorath

Member

Registered: 2008-03-05

Posts: 6

Re: Problems with inresponsive mouse behavior

mine works ok.. but anything below xset m 1 1 i.e. xset 1/4 1, it stops half way sometimes.. using:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier    "Configured Mouse"
        Driver        "mouse"
        Option         "CorePointer"
        Option        "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
        Option        "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
        Option        "Buttons" "7"
        Option        "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
        Option        "ButtonMapping" "1 2 3 6 7"
        Option        "Emulate3Buttons" "0"
        Option        "Resolution" "2000"
        Option         "SampleRate" "1000"
EndSection

using a razer copperhead mouse

Tried setting "xset m" a bit higher, but didn't seem to make a difference.

Thanks though, was something I haven't tried before