I started with RH 9, which uses a 2.4 kernel.

I upgraded to the 2.6.5 kernel just a few nights ago. It was my first time ever successfully updating a kernel!

But much to my dismay, i noticed that after I rebooted, the damn mouse was outrageously jumpy! It would move like 200 pixels at a time!

I looked around the net for answers but couldn't find much, so I figured I'd turn to you all for help.

Is there any way to get rid of this? Thanks

Pontius

what is your video card? did you enable mtrr in your kernel?

i am running an nvidia geforce 4 ti4600

it recognizes it fine

what would the video card have to do with it?

i'm not sure what mtrr is, this is my first time doing this. but i saved my .config file from the kernel compile, so i could reload that into xconfig and check.

Ok, I figured it out.

In my X11 config file I had to change the line in the mouse device section from:

Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"

To

Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"

aparently they changed the way they do things with mice in the newer kernels. everyone who is doing a kernel upgrade take note!

I think the reason was that I checked an option when I did the kernel config to use some new mouse driver stuff, you will be able to see it when you do

make xconfig

it will say something about a mouse and say (New)
i would advise not checking that so that you don't have to go through the same pain i did