On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, William W. Austin wrote: > I have some mixed eide/scsi boxen which all repeatably and uniformly > display the same odd symptom. I use a ps/2 scroll mouse on all (5) of > my systems which are pretty nearly identical (2 at work, 3 at home > office), and since installing the 2.6.7-1.494.2.2 kernel the scroll > wheel on the mouse is somewhat hosed. > > Immediately after a hard reboot, it works normally; however after 5-15 > minutes of 'normal' work (xterms, email, web browsing, etc.), the > system stops recognizing the scroll wheel altogether, and it never > "mysteriously starts recognizing" it again thereafter (well not for up > to 18 hours so far, anyway). The problem is probably that you are using a kvm and a ps/2 scroll mouse. I have the same problem. Switching between systems on the kvm will totally bjork the mouse. I saw a patch for this a couple of days ago. I cannot test it until next week however. (My system got bjorked for a totally unrelated reason.) The kernel option hack (psmouse.proto=imps) does not work for me. This required a fix to the kernel if I remember correctly.
