Messages in this thread | | | From | "Ulrich Windl" <> | Date | Tue, 9 Apr 1996 10:54:43 +0100 | Subject | Re: marching PS/2 mouse |
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On 9 Apr 96 at 3:49, Jon Lewis wrote:
> 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. >
Just to pint out: My mouse is the "MS Original from 1990" that worked fine until either the recent kernels or my new hardware. As I'm running mainly Linux, I don't have much experience with other OSs.
Ulrich
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