[CentOS] CentOS 4.2 Mouse Tracking Unstable

Sat Jan 28 00:19:58 UTC 2006
Charles Sliger <chaz at bctonline.com>

Just installed CentOS 4.2 on a system that was running RedHat-9.

The system is connected to the keyboard, video and mouse through a Belkin
OmniView Pro KVM switch.

After bootup, the the system tracks movement by the mouse just fine.

The unstable behavior can be characterized as follows:

 

1. Console is switched to a different system for a time and then switched
back to the Centos system.

2. Movement of the mouse causes the cursor to jump all over the screen
erratically.

3. Windows appear/disappear as if mouse-clicks are selecting things rapidly
at random.

 

It's pretty difficult to follow visually, so I can't say in detail what is
going on.

 

I changed xorg.conf to have "simulate 3-button mouse" set to "no".  No
change in behavior.

 

The mouse is a pretty simple one that came with an E-Machines box and has
worked fine with all of the systems up until now.

 

Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

 

Charles L. Sliger,    Information Systems Engineer,    chaz at bctonline.com

"no matter where you go, there you are..."

 

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