Re: Mouse freezing in X

[Andy Bastien <lists@yuggoth.net>]

There are those who would have you believe that Bob Nielsen wrote:
> I have noticed in the past few days that if I switch from the X display
> to a VC and back again that as soon as I move my mouse the cursor jumps
> to the upper right corner of the display and stays there.  This is on a
> system running woody.  Has anyone else noticed this?
> 

This can happen if you're using different protocols in gpm and X; for
example, configuring the mouse as ps/2 in gpm and imps in X.  It also 
seems that Microsoft mice will work with either ps/2 or imps
protocols, but once you use the imps protocol you can't go back to
ps/2.