Wild Mouse

[Tim]

On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 09:29 -0800, John Wendel wrote:
> Logitech optical mouse, it's not a laser, just a red led, connected to
> the PS/2 mouse port through an adapter. NO KVM involved.

What's the adaptor?

For what it's worth, I've had all sorts of troubles with PS/2 mice over
the years doing wild behaviour (scooting about and clicking everywhere),
but USB mice haven't done that.  The worst they've done is a momentary
scoot off in one direction, occasionally.

I had one that was shockingly bad through a PS/2 extension cable, but
mostly fine when plugged in directly.  It made me wonder whether the
power to the mouse was poor, so the chip inside it was acting randomly.