[NTLUG:Discuss] Funky mouse behavior in FC3

[Leroy Tennison]

David I S Mandala wrote:

>Once you get the mouse to work directly connected you still might have
>an issue when you attach it to the KVM. Depending upon which version of
>Linux and X I'm running I have to disconnect and reconnect my mouse or
>switch to virtual console 1 and back to 7 and then the mouse works. It's
>odd but it's something I live with daily with my Belkin Omni Cube 4-Port
>KVM. 
>
>It's annoying but at least it's easily fixable. But your mouse does have
>to work correctly directly connected first.
>
>Cheers,
>
>David
>
>On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 07:07 -0500, lonny.dahl at verizon.com wrote:
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>>Over the weekend, I purchased an Airlink 4 port KVM switch and connected it
>>to 3 of my computers.  One is a FC3 64 bit machine, one is an old
>>Smoothwall box and the other is our old dual boot Weenderz 98/FC3 box.  All
>>3 boxes boot up ok, I get video on all, keyboards work on all, but the dual
>>boot box now is doing some funky things with the mouse.  I know it's a FC
>>thing because the mouse works fine in Weenderz.  What it's doing is, once
>>the machine boots to the login screen, moving the mouse around causes it to
>>jump to the far lower left corner of the screen and it acts like it's
>>clicking on apps as it goes over them.  If you log into a user session, it
>>does the same thing.  If you move it VERY slowly, it'll move just a bit in
>>the direction you're moving it to, but then jumps right back to the lower
>>left corner.  If you get it to pass over an icon on the panel, it brings up
>>that app like you clicked on it.
>>
>>I know this has to be a configuration issue, but have no idea where to go
>>to see how to fix it.  I've checked the /etc/X11/XFree86.conf file and the
>>mouse seems to be configured correctly there.  It has to have something to
>>do with X because it seems to work properly on a text session when booting
>>into userlevel 3.  I have also tried removing the computer from the KVM
>>switch and connecting the monitor, mouse and keyboard directly to the
>>computer, but it's doing the same thing, so it's obvious a configuration
>>file somewhere has been changed.
>>
>>Any ideas what to look for?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>L. Wayne Dahl
>>Fiber Network Technician
>>FTTP Fiber Solutions Center
>>
>>
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<sigh> It's not just Belkin, I purchased an Apex KVM (seems to be a 
pretty expensive brand) on eBay and am running into the same issues.