On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 22:01 -0400, Philippe A. wrote: > I have just purchased a Benq X805 wireless keyboard and mouse combo. > The keyboard works great. However, the mouse behaves erratically. > Every minute or two, the cursor starts jumping around and clicks are > registered in response to simple movement. This behavior is seen in X > only. I couldn't reproduce it in a text console. I still see the same, sporadically, in FC4. You'll touch the mouse, and it'll go wild. Luckily, mine only seems to do it for a moment, not continuously as it used to with RH9. > I have noticed many of the following in dmesg. > > psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - timeout > psmouse.c: Wheel Mouse at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, > throwing 3 bytes away. > psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - bad parity I'll have to look out for that, I haven't before. > Both receiver cables are plugged in PS/2 ports. There is no driver CD > shipping with those, so really I think they should Just Work. I'd, long since, come to the conclusion that there's something screwy with how Linux handles mice. No amount of changing settings, mice, or motherboards, made any difference. The situation is slightly better with USB mice (it happens far less often, but still does). There's only one time I'd seen this happen on Windows, and that was with one mouse on a long extension cord. Take away that cord, and it worked fine. Which made me suspicious of two things: Power supply from the port to the device. Static charges generated from moving the mouse upsetting the chips inside them. -- (Currently running FC4, occasionally trying FC5.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
