It's the ps2 mouse sending events to the /dev/input/mice device as well as /dev/psaux. I've seen this happen a few times on distros that are designed to use the 2.4 kernel where the psaux events are only sent to /dev/psaux ..
later, Steve Eric Sharkey wrote: >>I've also run across this problem if more than one mouse is configured >>in XF86Config(-4). Not sure why another kernel would suddenly make it >>start to manifest this behavior, but it's something to look at. > > > Thanks. My XF86Config-4 had an entry for both "Configured Mouse" and > "Generic Mouse". After commenting out the Generic Mouse entry, > the problem seems to have gone away. > > It's odd. I've been using that config file for several years now. > > Not only did I need to restart my X session after modifying the config, > but I needed to restart my wife's X session (on the F8 virtual terminal) > before the problem went away, even in my session. > > Eric > >
