And we have a winner!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you Craig!
psmouse.proto=bare
I tried 5 other solutions that had no effect, but this works great.
Just so you know I'm not completely clueless, I was aware of the need to reboot to test the kernel parameters.
As far as the Belkin switch being of the cheap variety, far from it. This unit cost around $400.00 several years ago and has been rock-solid with all systems until this Centos 4.2 install. (my first 2.6.x kernel system)
My question regarding the Ubuntu solution below had to do with the fact that /etc/modules does not exist on the CentOS system. I assume it resides somewhere else in the filesystem.
Regards, Chaz
Charles L. Sliger, Information Systems Engineer, chaz@bctonline.com "no matter where you go, there you are..."
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Craig White Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 6:42 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: RE: [CentOS] CentOS 4.2 Mouse Tracking Unstable
On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 18:34 -0800, Charles Sliger wrote:
I saw the following fix for this problem on 2.6.x Ubuntu systems where the kernel parameters had no effect:
/etc/modules mousedev psmouse proto=exps
What is the equivalent for CentOS?
---- it's what you tried and you said that it didn't work (appending psmouse.proto=exps to kernel boot line in grub)
recognize that you must reboot for the setting to take root.
Myself, I have resorted to psmouse.proto=bare because that works and the only drawback is that the mouse wheel doesn't work.
The Belkin switches are the problem. I'm too cheap to buy another brand but I probably should just bite the bullet.
The 2.6 kernel obviously has timing issues which causes this to occur on the Belkin switches. I don't believe that this is a distribution or driver issue but rather a kernel issue. Whether you replace the Belkin switch with another brand or resort to one of the techniques such as psmouse.proto=bare is your choice.
Craig
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