SOLVED - batteries - Re: mouse suddenly behaving strangely

[Dave Howorth <dhoworth@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk>]

I wrote:
> My mouse just started behaving strangely, although I haven't done 
> anything, to the best of my knowledge. Hopefully somebody will have an 
> idea what to try!

Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
> I suppose it's possible that you somehow fried your PS/2 connector ...
>
> The initial symptoms sound like a low battery to me.  Maybe the corded
> mouse happens to need a different entry in your XF86Config-4 than does
> the cordless one?  So you had a low battery, switched to a corded,
> windows used it properly, but debian didn't know what to do with it?

Pigeon wrote:
> It might be the X-doesn't-reset-the-mouse bug which tends to show up
> in dual-boot situations.

Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> Sounds to me as if you need to replace the battery.

The easiest to test was the batteries and changing them fixed the problem :)

Thanks to all for their helpful suggestions.

Dave