Serious desktop/mouse problem in Gnome

[craigwhite at azapple.com (Craig White)]

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?
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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

Craig