[Tfug] Erratic mouse behavior

[Jeffry Johnston]

I've had weird mouse behavior when somehow a hair got inside and sat
in front of blocked the LED/mirror.  I guess as I moved the mouse the
hair moved and confused the sensor.  I've also seen some pretty gunky
ball mice.. but if you're still using one of those, go down to World
Care and get an optical mouse for $1.

Jeff


On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 5:30 AM, Tm Ottinger <tottinge at gmail.com> wrote:
> I had crazy mouse behavior including "re-homing" which drove me nuts.  In my case it was a poor optical mouse at fault.  According to my support guy it had poor tracking and when it got lost it would resync to a corner.  We replaced it and all was well.
>
>
> In case that helps.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles R. Kiss <charles at kissbrothers.com>
> Sent: July 06, 2008 11:00 PM
> To: tfug at tfug.org
> Subject: [Tfug] Erratic mouse behavior
>
> Recently, I've been getting very erratic mouse behavior with my
> Debian/Windows XP OS on K7 motherboard with AMD Athlon (ca.2004).  It's
> driving me crazy.
>
> On the advice of some news groups.
>
> I set acpi=off in /grub/menu.lst
> I used variuos "Resolution"s in etc/X11/xorg.conf
>
> When I boot Windows I pretty much get the same behavior, erratic mouse
> pointer.
>
> I changed some ACPI stuff around in BIOS, no difference in mouse behavior.
>
> Is my PS/2 mouse port bad?  Should I reinstall BIOS software?  New dual
> core computers are as low as $300.00.
>
> Any advice??
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
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