Microsoft Basic Optical Mouse 1.0A & FC6

[Sander Hoentjen]

On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 11:27 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
> I just got a new Microsoft Basic Optical Mouse 1.0A to replace my old Genius
> Netmouse.  It's plugged into the mouse port on this computer.
> 
> very so often when I use it, the mouse pointer suddenly relocates to a
> completely different area of the screen and I have to search for it.
> 
> I didn't do anything special to install or set this mouse up -- it just worked
> when I plugged it in.
> 
> This is the relevant section of xorg.conf.  As I said, I didn't do anything to
> it when I changed mouses.
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier  "Mouse0"
>         Driver      "mouse"
>         Option      "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
>         Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
>         Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
>         Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
> EndSection
> 
> 
> Is there something that I should change to fix this?  It works fine 99+%
> of the time but every so often the mouse point relocates itself.  I haven't
> noticed it actually move; it's just suddenly not where it was before.

I have seen this happen on certain surfaces, like wood with the "lines"
on them, not sure how to call it in English. Also with certain mouse
pads. Are you sure that is not the problem here?

Sander