At 02:40 PM 2/21/2006, Craig White wrote: >On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 14:29 -0500, William (Bill) E. T. wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 13:55 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Just touch it and it goes all over the place. Things start dropping > > > > > and draging. The system bar is on the top now and the action > > > > bar on the side. > > > > > > > > > > If I manage to get a terminal window open and leave the mouse alone, > > > > > I can type. > > > > > > > > > > Also <alt-cnlt-F1> gets me to display 1. > > > > > > > > > > If I go back to display 0, everything is still hosed. > > > > > > > > > > Any pointers? Some mouse file out of align and too sensitive? How I > > > > > fix this and reset things? > > > > I haven't followed this thread closely, so sorry if this has already > > been suggested. On my KVM at work, if I switch over to a windows > > computer and then back to my linux box my mouse goes crazy (I don't know > > why, but its common to our Belkin KVM's). If I unplug and replug my > > mouse, everything works fine after then. Does this work for you? >---- >the well known belkin kvm switch fix... > >psmouse.proto=bare > >tack that onto the end of your 'kernel' line in /boot/grub/grub.conf > >--- you will lose the 'mouse wheel' on the top but it won't go crazy To the end of /boot/grub/grub.conf I added the line: psmouse.proto=imps then I tried bare neither made a difference. I am running at init 3 now, the after logging in, typing init 5 to bring up X