VMware mouse problem

[Jose Castillo]

I use a kensington mouse with a wheel. Under RedHat, I set it up as a PS/2 3
button mouse and it works fine.
On Tue, 21 Nov 2000 02:07:23 -0700, plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
wrote:

>  Hello all!  I've been trying to setup something at work to showoff
>  Linux to some people, and additionally I wanted to check out Storm
>  2k.  Since I was unable to appropriate a separate box, I grabbed the
>  30 day trial of VMware for NT and set it up on my work box, then
>  installed Storm Linux 2k, and then installed the appropriate tools.
>  
>  My problem comes in with how my mouse is set up. Mouse is a MS
>  Intellimouse with middle finger wheel. Symptom is that mouse movements
>  in X are extrememly erratic, going to the bottom of the screen and
>  flicking around wildly with slight mouse movements. The setup program
>  built XF86Config initially tried to use a normal ps/2 mouse for the
>  protocol and "/dev/gpmdata" for the device. I've tried various
>  permutations of this and "imwheel", I've tried varying baud rates,
>  changing the device to point directly at /dev/psaux, etc. I've run out
>  of ideas. Anyone else see these symptoms and have any ideas? Thanks!
>  
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