Belkin Switches and Erratic PS2 Mouse

[Gregory P. Ennis]

Everyone,

I just installed FC2 and am having difficulty with my ps2 mouse (2 button with a 
track wheel) It is a Compaq Microsoft IntelliMouse.  I have a Belkin 4 port switch 
that I use with XP, RH 8 and FC1 systems that has worked fine except for one 
difficulty.  When I switch back and forth with the Belkin Switch to one of the Linux 
machines I am required to switch to a terminal window by using Cntrl-Alt-F1 before I 
can use the gui window in either of the Linux machines otherwise the mouse behaves 
erratically.  Obviously a little nuisance, but an easy work around to be able to 
connect 3 machines to one desktop.

When I installed the FC2 machine and connected it to my desktop using the Belkin 
switch the same symptoms occurred except that the mouse could not be stabilized by 
switching to a terminal window.  The mouse continues to function erratically, and the 
only way to resolve the problem is to reboot.  Not a good thing!

In searching the archives it appeared that by adding a qualifier to the kernal line 
in the boot loader might be helpful.

I tried appending the following statements to the kernal line of the grub boot loader 
in three separate attempts.

psmouse.proto=imps
psmouse.proto=bare
psmouse.proto=exps

I could not get FC2 to boot using these qualifiers; I obtained "Error 27" by the boot 
grub loader in each case.

The archives also mentioned using these statements on the psmouse module command line 
but I have not been able to find out how this is done so have not tried it yet.

Sure would appreciate some help

Also, does anyone know if this problem is present in FC3 - might be best to use FC3 
instead of FC2?

Thank you,

Greg Ennis