Re: KVM -> jumping mouse... still no solution?

[Anthony DiSante <orders@nodivisions.com>]

Jesper Juhl wrote:
>>you don't move it, but if you move it N/E/NE it's really slow and jerky, and
>>if you move it S/W/SW even a hair, it slams down to the SW corner of the
>>screen and acts like you hit all the mouse's buttons 50 times simultaneously.
>>
> 
> I've had similar problems with my mouse and KVM switch.
> 
> 
>>The other day I came across this (kerneltrap.org/node/view/2199): "Use
>>psmouse.proto=bare on the kernel command line, or proto=bare on the
>>psmouse module command line."  But that makes the mouse's scroll-wheel not
>>work.  (And this problem doesn't exist with some of the mouse drivers, but it
>>does with IMPS/2, which is the only one I've ever been able to get the scroll
>>wheel working with.)
>>
> 
> psmouse.proto=imps solves the problem for me (wheel works as well).
> The funny thing is that I don't need to do anything like this when I boot 
> a 2.4 kernel, only 2.6 kernels show this behaviour on my system.???

That doesn't make any difference on my system.  Mouse freakout is just the same.

-Anthony DiSante
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