Rather than go into a lot of detail on my problems, I would prefer to get a reliable reference to a comprehensive discussion about the installation and trouble shooting of mice. I am currently using Woody (Debian 3.0), a ps/2 modem, AMD 500 Mhz cpu -- in other words, nothing very unusual or fancy.
If no good reference exists, can some computer science or engineering instructor suggest this topic to one of their more adventurous students as a term project, or even as a Masters thesis. By the way, I don't understand why many exchanges on the Debian lists refer to unpredictable mouse problems from unknown sources: Are mice and their software really stochastic machines, or are those people merely as ignorant as I am (which is very)? Thanks for any help. sam