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<DIV style="BORDER-RIGHT: #666666 1px solid; BORDER-TOP: #666666 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #666666 1px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #666666 1px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #eeeeee"><FONT size=2><B><JohnThompson@new.rr.com></B><BR>Re: FC2 wild mouse upon kernel update</FONT></DIV><PRE>Had the same problem. solution is to add *psmouse.proto=imps* (without the *) on the same line of the new kernel on /boot/grub/menulst <BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>Larry Koester wrote:
> I have an installation of Fedora Core 2. IN the initial installation the
mouse works fine. It is a microsoft wheel mouse attached to the ps2 port
through a KVM switch. However, when I upgrade the kernel to the newer ones
through apt-get, the mouse goes wild upon boot. This has been true through 4
updates. By this I mean it randomingly pops all over the screen and appears to
be clicking on various buttons as it does so since unwanted apps come up. This
is an nForce2 ckipset motherboard using an ATI video card machine.
When I've seen this happen it seems to be due to using the wrong mouse
protocol.
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-John (<A href="mailto:john@os2.dhs.org)">john@os2.dhs.org)
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