drunken mouse? 2.6 + usbmouse/usbhid

Henry Standing lists at opml.co.uk
Mon Nov 22 13:50:02 UTC 2004


Possibly.....

I had problems similar to yours on an IBM Thinkpad R31.  The solution
for me was to add the following Kernel option to grub:

"i8042.nomux=1"

It was something to do with APM calls.  If in doubt try googling "R31
mouse Linux"

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On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 08:37, Sami Haahtinen wrote:
> Ok, this is not really ubuntu specific, but it's still rather annoying 
> and it's keeping me from switching one of my desktop machines to ubuntu.
> 
> I have a Fujitsu Siemens wireless keyboard which has an integrated 
> touchpad. The touchpad works as planned with 2.4 kernels, but with 2.6 
> kernels the mouse keeps wandering around. when i move the mouse left, it 
> keeps on going (slowly) even if i stop moving my finger.
> 
> So far i've tried loading usbmouse manually and tried fiddling with X 
> config, but i can't find any solution for the problem.
> 
> Has anyone else encountered something alike?
> 
> -- Sami
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