BUG: mouse behavior with linux 2.6.x

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hello,
I recently upgraded from linux 2.4.23 to 2.6.2 and this caused some
problems with my mouse in XFree86. I have XFree86 4.3.0 (official
slackware 9.1 build) and I use nvidia's binary video driver (version 5336
at the moment). My mouse is a ps/2 logitech mouse with a mouse wheel
(s48). After I upgraded to linux 2.6.2, after starting up X, the mouse
cursor didn't react to mouse movement for about 2 seconds of moving the
mouse. After that, the mouse pointer did move, but the mouse wheel was not
working. At that time I had "Protocol" set to "Auto" for my mouse and with
kernel 2.4.23 the mouse was detected correctly and the mouse wheel worked.
After I manually changed the setting to "ImPS/2", the delay in mouse
motion stopped and the wheel works again. i didn't find anything
non-standard in my XFree86 logs, but there were some messages in the
syslog. The first two messages have disappeared after changing "Auto" to
"ImPS/2", the rest still appears whenever X is started.
I also get strange mouse behavior once in a while (once every 3 days or
so): suddenly the mouse starts moving all by itself - it seems to go to
one of the screens corners, but I can't really see where it goes. This
motion stops at the moment I press any key. I don't think this could be
attributed to dust in the mouse mechanism or anything similar - I believe
it is also a bug.
Excerpt from /var/log/syslog follows:


Feb 11 14:54:16 nowy kernel: psmouse.c: Wheel Mouse at
isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 3 bytes away.
Feb 11 15:46:17 nowy kernel: psmouse.c: Wheel Mouse at
isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 3 bytes away.
Feb 11 16:11:25 nowy kernel: atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set
2, code 0x7a on isa0060/serio0).
Feb 11 16:11:25 nowy kernel: atkbd.c: This is an XFree86 bug. It shouldn't
access hardware directly.
Feb 11 16:11:25 nowy kernel: atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set
2, code 0x7a on isa0060/serio0).
Feb 11 16:11:25 nowy kernel: atkbd.c: This is an XFree86 bug. It shouldn't
access hardware directly.


Greetings,
Michal Kosmulski
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