Erratic Mouse in X

[abbyanu]

Hi

I just installed Linux Mandrake 7.1. It works fine, but I can't use the mouse in X windows, because it keeps jumping from one place to the next erratically when I try to point and click. I have a standard 2-button mouse.

Any special settings I should use? How?

Please help. I'm a newbie in Linux.

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

It sounds like you have the wrong mouse 'protocol' in your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file. You need to run 'XFdrake' or '/usr/sbin/mousedrake' to reconfigure the mouse settings. You can probably use 'generic' or 'microsoft' as the protocol.

Hope this helps