So I have this USB mouse that I've always been using a usb to ps2 converter becuase i always got the ps2 to work and never the usb. The protocol is imps/2. But when I jerk the computer a tiny bit the mouse freezes and I have to reenforce that the converter & the female connector connection is tight and restart xserver. This is beginning to really piss me off.

So I boot the computer with the mouse plugged into the USB port. The red LED on the bottom lights up, so I know it's getting power and also on the dmesg, it says So do I need to change where /dev/mouse points or do I need to change the protocol in my xorg.conf? What would I change it too? I looked at the xorg.conf on my other computer which has a usb mouse and the protocol is IMPS/2.

i think you have to load the usb module. Just check using lsmod whether usbcore module is inserted or not

And you can run "mouseconfig" and choose USB connected mouse.

The IMPS/2 protocol is fine.

If "mouseconfig" doesn't fix xorg.conf, try "/dev/mouse" or
"/dev/input/mice" -- I've had USB mice on the same computer
need different configurations on different kernels even.

You're also going to need "usbhid", because that mouse is a
USB human interface device (HID).

Ah, Bruce Hill thank you! I Ran mouseconfig and chose usb and it works now! Thank you very much

You're welcome. And thank you for posting back, so that
someone else who searches and finds this thread will know
what you did to solve your problem.