ps2 mouse pointer wanders away

[Joel Rees]

I've got Fedora 9 up and running multi-boot while I wait for time to  
back up the data from Fedora 7 and install it properly.

I find that I often lose control of the mouse pointer. It seems to  
happen more when I'm seeding torrents, or running a diff or a message  
digest check on the download, or doing other things that load the  
system.

Sempron 2600, single processor, VIA KM400something+8237 chipset, 760M  
RAM.  Generic PS-2 mouse and keyboard.

I can plug in a USB mouse and use that, and sometimes plugging the  
USB mouse in brings the PS2 mouse back, as well.

Anyone else noticing this kind of stuff?

(I'm not much on filing bug reports. Seems they're always changing  
the front door, and I never can find my way around until after I've  
solved the problem. So I'm hoping it's probably someplace I need to  
tweak in X11, and I guess I'm being too lazy to go digging into the  
X11 settings today.)

Joel Rees
(waiting for a 3+GHz ARM processor to come out,
to test Steve's willingness to switch again.)