[KLUG Members] sporadic mouse under X

[MPs]

On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, John Pesce wrote:

> This is a weird one.
> 
> I have a few workstations plugged into a Belkin KVM switch.
> Sometimes when I change computers, but mostly after a power glitch, my
> mouse goes crazy. When I move my mouse the pointer will move sporadicly
> combined with random mouse clicks.
> Under Redhat Linux 9.0 I was able to ctrl-alt-F1 to get to a text shell
> and then ctrl-alt-F7 to get back to X and everything would be back to
> normal.
> I'm now trying out Suse 9.0 and 9.1 and I've noticed that trick no
> longer works. I've even tried ctrl-alt-backspace to restart X and it
> doesn't help.
> 
> I'm using KDE.
> 
> Does anyone have a clue what might be happening and does anyone know of
> a text command to reset the mouse driver perhaps?

Sounds to me like the KVM changes from IMPS/2 to ... what MSMouse?

My thoughts: does the KVM have a power switch/cord to turn off? If it is a 
wheel mouse, try using a non-wheel mouse. You could try restarting gpm and 
X using imps2 or ps2 [depending on what worked previously].

--Miles P