Hint when changing mouse protocol settings in XF86Config: Older versions of X - up to 4.2.1 - have broken PS/2 mouse initialisation code that doesn't reset the mouse. With some mice, this screws up the mouse's response to its initialisation string. The result is that changing the protocol setting in XF86Config appears not to work.
The cure is to reset the mouse by hand: echo -ne '\377' > /dev/psaux from the console, before restarting X. This problem along with the dodgy mouse autodetection code was fixed fairly soon after X 4.2.1, so 4.3 is OK. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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