On 16 Feb 2002, David Frey wrote:
> My mouse (a logitech optical wheel mouse) has one problem. Every once > in a while, the cursor will "go crazy" and shoot into one of the corners > of the screen. It returns to normal after a few seconds. This is > *REALLY* annoying when I'm playing Unreal Tournament because all of a > sudden I'm staring at a spinning ceiling :-) > > > This is from my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4: > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Mouse1" > Driver "mouse" > Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" > Option "Buttons" "5" > Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" > EndSection > > > Any ideas? Try putting Option "sw_cursor" in your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 in the video card section. This can sometimes do the trick with weird mouse behaviour. See for example, http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/wessels_trident_mouse.html Though this is the example of a very specific bug, it sometimes works in other cases too. Sincerely, Faheem Mitha.
