On Thursday 18 January 2007 22:56, John Pierce wrote: > Hello! > > I have just installed opensuse 10.2 on an older computer for my son > and the mouse is jerky. > /snip/ > > Here is what I am experiencing, even on a desktop with nothing open if > I move the mouse around the screen it will move with a sudden stop and > then start moving again. It seems (I have not timed this) to stop > about every 2 seconds with about a 0.5 second delay before it starts > moving again. This I set the screen resolution to 1024x768 down from > 1152x864 to see if that would make a difference but it would not. I > have disabled just about everything thing that may run in the > background with the exceptions of critical system components. /snip/
I saw something like this in Windows once. It seems I had a 3-button mouse protocol installed, instead of a 2-button. (5-bit instead of 3-bit, if I remember correctly.) I don't know if there is this kind of option in Linux. Did you have the mouse connected when you did the install? Good luck--doug -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
