i have a kvm switch and the mouse on linux used to work fine. now i got a new one and the mouse no longer works in X. the problem is the mouse gets stuck in the right hand corner of the X screen and i'm stuck.

so then i tried to change my micro$oft intellimouse to "IMPS/2" in XF86Config-4 which worked for awhile (prior to that, the mouse was simply "PS/2").

is this normal? is IMPS/2 the standard fix for this problem?

if it works, then it's the fix.

actually, the ps/2 driver for linux was originally developed for older mouses - the ones with two buttons and no wheel. it's one of the first mouse protocols that was developed. the imps/2 has better support for most of the mouses today, which have the wheel, three buttons, or a button built into the wheel, ect.
this is my mouse section in XF86Config-4:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "off"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

the "Emulate3Buttons" was an option for mouses with two buttons, and pushing them both simultaneously emulated three, and the "ZAxisMapping" has something to do with the wheel.

This helped a lot on an old Dell Dimension p133 thanks! Although things got better my pointer still skips somtimes. Do you think increassing the baud rate might help? If so do you know how to change it?

OK, I think my problem is related to this, so I won't post an entirely new thread.

I have a 4-port KVM switch, and I have 2 linux boxes hooked up to it. When installing Mandrake, I think I told it the wrong mouse driver :-(

Therefore, whenever I turn on my computer, the mouse driver won't load properly! If I log in as myself, screw around with the config, and then log out, it works!

How can I get it to get it right the first time every time? (Not the second)

Thanks a lot!