Help needed to config X in Slack....

[fow99]

I installed Slackware last night. After about 2 hours struggle with the installer ( Call me dumb but this is my first installing it ), I had the thing installed. But I just couldn't get X working. My hardware is:
Samsung 700NF, Geforce 2 GTS 32M DDR, MS Intelli mouse 1.2A. Actually X worked fine except for the mouse. Whenever I try to move the mouse, even a single mm, it will jump to the top right corner of the screen and stay around there. It sometimes decided to click its buttons too and hence show me some nice menu. I used the driver for Intellimouse used device /dev/mouse.

Help please!

 

[stirling]

You might try adding this line to the InputDevice section (for the mouse) of XF86Config:

Option "Resolution" "300"

It solved my problem when my mouse was jumping all over the screen, randomly typing in xterm, and crashing X.
Anyway, I'm curious to know if it works for you.

More details (with sample configs for your mouse) here:
http://www.xfree86.org/4.1.0/mouse.html

 

[fow99]

Thanks for the link. I read it and it looks like I (actually xf86config) used the protocol for serial mouse for my ps/2 mouse. I am gonna give it a short and hopefully I will get it work.

 

[Elledan]

Just for reference, the symptoms you described, fow99, usually means that a wrong driver has been selected which does not work with your mouse.