When starting linux if I do not roll mouse ball I do not get a ps2 aux device. Then xwindows will crash when it does not detect mouse - crash can be prevented by rolling mouse ball when running startx . But alas mouse eventually freezes in xwindows. This is a hardware problem - the mouse was working fine.
Any reason to believe the problem is the mouse
or is there a reason to believe the problem is the ps2 hardware?
Don't have adapter or another ps/2 mouse right now to test this.
Thanks
