I have seen this one before. In my experience it has always been caused
by specifying the wrong mouse type in the /etc/XF86Config file. Make
sure that it is the only mouse connected to your system. You can then
use gui tools to configure the mouse. Under SuSE it should be a module
in Yast2. If it doesn't auto-detect your mouse properly then just
specify the value manually. Make sure you apply the changes and then
restart your X server. This can be done without the use of the mouse by
hitting Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, or assuming that you are in runlevel 5 hit
Ctrl.-Alt-F1, log in as root and type init 3 and then init 5. You might
want to play around with different mouse settings until you find one
that works.

Jesse 

On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 22:01, Graham Monk wrote:
> OK, so I got SUSE 8.1 Pro installed on an IBM 300PL,
> great hardware but IBM has very strange BIOS menu layout.
> Got things looking Ok but I have cursor problems.
> After a little bit of playing around on the desktop the
> cursor jumps to the bottom left and becomes very erratic.
> it wont go much more than a third of the screen before it jumps back
> and I get windows popping up all over the place and uncommanded actions
> occuring.
> I thought it was the mouse itself  AOPEN s48a ps2 wheel mouse so
> I tried configuring as something else, no joy, then swiped someone
> elses MS intellimouse because there is a specified setting. No good.
> I can get the mouse to go part way up the screen but when I lift
> the mouse to take another run the cursor jumps back.
> Any ideas? Could it be because I'm running a KVM switch?
> I did try it without the KVM.
> Any help much appreciated even if shows how dumb I really am.
> 
> Graham
> 

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