Wisetech PS/2 scroll mouse

[Wayne Leutwyler]

John Aldrich wrote:
> Anyone here using a WiseTech PS/2 Scroll mouse? I've got an Optical mouse with 
> their logo on it, although on the underside it says it was made by KYE 
> Systems Corp. I'm having problems with it going crazy every time I switch 
> back and forth between my wife's PC and my FC3 box on my Belkin Omniview SE 
> KVM. I had no problems with this under RH9 that I can remember, although I 
> vaguely remember having to tell RedHat 9 I was using a Genuine MS 
> Intellimouse PS/2, but that's not an option any more. The only Intellimouse 
> option is for a Serial mouse, and this is a PS/2 on a KVM.
> 
> Is there some reason the Intellimouse driver was dropped from Fedora after 
> RH9? I really think this is a driver/config issue and I'm wondering if this 
> is a known bug or what? It seems from what little I've been able to discover 
> that this is not a rare problem, but it may or may not be specific to one 
> brand of mouse, and may be related to the KVM, but the fact that it worked 
> fine in RH9, but not in FC3 makes me suspicious of a driver bug.
> 

I have an Omni Cube 4-Port from Belkin, switch back and forth all the 
time. If I recall I had the same problem at one time. I did the following:

Make sure in your xorg.conf your protocol for your mouse is set for IMPS/2.

example:         Option      "Protocol" "IMPS/2"

-wl