[Tfug] Erratic mouse behavior

[Tm Ottinger]

I had crazy mouse behavior including "re-homing" which drove me nuts.  In my case it was a poor optical mouse at fault.  According to my support guy it had poor tracking and when it got lost it would resync to a corner.  We replaced it and all was well.


In case that helps.

-----Original Message-----
From: Charles R. Kiss <charles at kissbrothers.com>
Sent: July 06, 2008 11:00 PM
To: tfug at tfug.org
Subject: [Tfug] Erratic mouse behavior

Recently, I've been getting very erratic mouse behavior with my 
Debian/Windows XP OS on K7 motherboard with AMD Athlon (ca.2004).  It's 
driving me crazy.

On the advice of some news groups.

I set acpi=off in /grub/menu.lst
I used variuos "Resolution"s in etc/X11/xorg.conf

When I boot Windows I pretty much get the same behavior, erratic mouse 
pointer. 

I changed some ACPI stuff around in BIOS, no difference in mouse behavior.

Is my PS/2 mouse port bad?  Should I reinstall BIOS software?  New dual 
core computers are as low as $300.00.

Any advice??



Thanks

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