Belkin Switches and Erratic PS2 Mouse

[Don Woodward]

I had the same problem - I added a choice with "psmouse.proto=bare" on the
kernel line in /etc/grub.conf as below - booted and chose this one - it
stopped the erratic mouse issues when switching using my Belkin switch.

title Fedora Core (2.6.5-1.358) - psmouse.proto=bare
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
psmouse.proto=bare
        initrd /initrd-2.6.5-1.358.img


Don Woodward

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gregory P. Ennis"
To: "FC users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2004 12:06
Subject: Belkin Switches and Erratic PS2 Mouse


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

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