Re: marching PS/2 mouse

Jon Lewis (jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net)
Tue, 9 Apr 1996 03:49:35 -0400 (EDT)


On Tue, 9 Apr 1996, Ulrich Windl wrote:

> In recent kernels I have the strange effect of a "marching mouse
> cursor" with my PS/2 mouse. Usually the cursor moves horizontally
> (e.g. right to left) without ever touching the mouse. I've seen this
> in 1.3.83 under X11 and on the console (gpm running). This seems
> rather strange. Any ideas?

I've seen some really cheap "Mouse Systems Corp" compatible serial mice do
this too...under 1.2.13 and XF86 3.1.0. I think ours also wanders right
to left (must be a Hebrew mouse:), but I'd always assumed it was just a
piece-o-crap $5 mouse...and that that was the problem.

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