FC3 psychotic behavior (mouse problems)

[Stanley A. Klein]

I have encountered the same kinds of mouse problems in two ways.  One is
when I use my KVM switch to change my keyboard and screen to an older
machine and then switch back to my FC3 machine.  I use separate mice for
the machines, but I get the erratic behavior.  There is nothing wrong
with the KVM switch (a Belkin 4-port).  The problem did not occur under
RH 9 and started when I upgraded to FC3.  It occurred on a third machine
on which I first installed FC1.  Fedora Core somehow does not play well
with KVM switches in the way RH9 did.

I get a similar problem on my laptop that has a Synaptics touchpad.  If
I plug in a PS2 mouse, the problem does not happen.  This problem did
occur with RH9 on the laptop when the screen awakened after having gone
to sleep due to inactivity while on battery.  It now happens with FC3 as
long as I am using the machine without the PS2 mouse whether on AC or
battery. 


Stan Klein






On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 23:31 -0400, Marc M <linuxr at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Message: 5
> Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 22:27:12 -0400
> From: Marc M <linuxr at gmail.com>
> Subject: FC3 psychotic behavior
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
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> I have a machine that does some weird stuff with the mouse. It is really 
> random and it was absolutely unbearably worse when I had a trackball, but it 
> happens with the regular ps/2 mouse too. Basically it is like random 
> features, like right clicks or something, that pop up at strange times. I 
> will be absolutely sure that I did not and am not clicking on something, 
> when my psychotic FC3 box decides to right click or something or show 
> something. It is not like someone is in there with VNC or something, because 
> it is always like quick flickers and/or mouse jumping around. It doesn't 
> seem to matter what I am doing - running mozilla, typing something in vi 
> editor, clicking around the desktop - whatever. Also sometimes the mouse 
> jumps around faster than a human could move it around the desktop (KDE 
> although it happened with GNOME on here too). I haven't seen any compromised 
> data at this point and I have run chkrootkit and I am reasonably sure that 
> hacking isn't to blame here, more like an X or mouse problem. Also it is 
> worth noting that I have had this problem after a clean install with the 
> current mouse detected and configured at that time. I would sure like to 
> know what could be corrupted. Does anyone know anything that I can check for 
> this? 
> 
> Marc