[Gllug] Erratic Mouse Behaviour

[Pete Ryland]

On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 04:34:58PM +0000, James.Rocks at equant.com wrote:
> Hi Mike, Wulf & Ian,
> 
> Thanks for your help on this issue. Some of the things you suggested helped
> (reduced the eratic behaviour) but in the end what actually (& completely)
> was a physical change. The mouse I had was attached via a converter to my
> PS/2 port ... I eventually attached it via my USB, reinstalled (Kernel 2.4
> Mike [G]) and it was absolutely perfect.

<rant>
For future reference, you may find it easier not to reinstall after such a
minor hardware change.  Reinstallation (and rebooting for that matter) is
almost never necessary with linux.  I (for one) find it frustrating when
someone asks "How do I reconfigure linux to use a usb mouse?" when the
documentation is plenty good enough for this, but that's nothing to the
frustration encountered when I hear that someone has gone and reinstalled
after such a change.
</rant>

Sorry for the rant, and I'm glad you've got it working,
Pete

> All that remains is for me to test my Win2K config as I know it was
> originally a problem with one of the Win 9x's (98 I think) that made me
> adopt this particular configuration ... it remained that way ever since! 2K
> should be OK though.
> 
> I have another problem which I'll post a separate post on (networking) but
> anyway this post is to say thanks for your help :-)

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