On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 08:41 -0500, Styma, Robert E (Robert) wrote: > > > > Tim: > > >> I've *NEVER* had good experiences with PS/2 mice and > > Linux. USB mice > > >> have been far less of a pain, and some USB mice have been the only > > >> mice that have worked without errors on some of my boxes. > > > > > > Aaron Konstam: > > > That is interesting since I have been using PS/2 mice for 15 years > > > with linux without a problem. > > > > Lucky you, there's been quite a few people post about mice that run > > about the screen, randomly. Also, randomly clicking on things. > > > > Several different motherboards, several different mice, same problem. > > > > > Have you configured xorg.conf properly. > > > > Yes. > > > The problem often occurs when going through a KVM. If I plug my > new mouse directly into the box, it works. I went to run level 3 > and ran "Xorg -configure" and it built a new xorg.conf file in > /root/xorg.conf.new. The FC6 machine set the mouse protocol to > "Auto" in the generated config. When I hooked the mouse back up > to the KVM, it went back to running around randomly and clicking > on things. I have used the KVM successfully for several iterations > of Fedora with my old 3 button PS2 mouse. > > The nice thing about the old system-config-mouse was that it gave > you a list of mice from which you could pick a best match. I have > not stumbled across this list elsewhere. I am currently loading FC4 on > a > test machine and will see what kind of mouse configuration it > comes up with for the new mouse. I will then try copying that > to my FC6 machine and see what happens. > > Bob S Well I confused the issue by posting the FC4 xorg.conf in answer to a previous question like this. But two further comments are interesting: I have used a PS/2 mouse on a system with 7 computers and one mouse through a KVM and it worked well. Second, FC6 has a different attitude towards mice. There is no mouse configuration clause in my xorg.conf on my FC6 machine with a PS/2 mouse so I don't know whether FC4 information will be useful on FC6. Although , our colleague Tim says this problem is rampant I have never experienced or heard of it before. But is it exists I am sure it is a hardware problem. -- Aaron Konstam tel: (210) 656-0355 akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
