[plug] Mouse Pointer goes cazy

[Dennis Plester]

I have the same problem with my Intellieye mouse too (plain version, not the
chunky 7 button extravaganza). I'm sure it's an optical mouse problem as I
can sometimes get a "pause" when using it in Win98 during heavy mouse
activity. It's almost like the mouse doesn't keep up with my hand movements.
In Linux, it has misbehaved in Redhat 6.1, 6.2 and Mandrake 7.1 in KDE and
GNOME, but instead of a "momentary lapse of reason" seen in Win98, it
behaves more like your description. 

It is only ever a brief occurrence (maybe half a second), and happens maybe
once very few hours, so I live with it. It seems to mainly happen during a
period of rapid windows opening/closing with simultaneous mouse activity,
but I can't consistently reproduce it.

I'm still using my mouse via PS/2, but have thought about trying it with USB
instead. I just haven't got around to it...

Dennis.

	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Bernard Blackham [SMTP:dagobah at mad.scientist.com]
	Sent:	Thursday, 21 September 2000 22:18
	To:	plug at plug.linux.org.au
	Subject:	Re: [plug] Mouse Pointer goes cazy

	On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Michael De Santis wrote:
	> Using Redhat 6.2 with the KDE manager and every so often the mouse
	> pointer decides to run amok and position itself in the top hand
corner
	> of the monitor. I usually have to wait a few seconds before it
comes
	> under control again. This also used to happen on previous version
of
	> Redhat and also under the Gnome desktop.
	> 
	> Does anybody knows what causing this and more importantly how to
correct
	> it ?

	I have the same problem, well used to... I have a PS/2 IntelliEye
explorer
	(btw, does anyone know how to get them working in usbmouse in linux
and
	support all 7 buttons?). Previously, everytime i switched vt's from
text
	to X it'd freeze in the top corner like a Mouse Systems mouse tends
to do
	when it thinks its in PC mouse mode.... that was running gnome from
under
	gdm. I've since changed to starting X from the command line and use
startx
	(god knows why) and i havent had the problem since. This doesnt
exactly
	answer your question, it might be a workaround, but if anyone else
can
	shed some light on the mystery I'd be thankful too :)

	Bernard.


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	 Bernard Blackham
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