mouse and Belkin Omnicube not happy

[Adam Hardy <adam.ant@cyberspaceroad.com>]

Hi All

I just upgraded from RH9 to Debian with relative ease, although I am 
still ironing out a couple of wrinkles! :)

I've got 3 computers set up to share a monitor, mouse and keybd via a 
Belkin Omnicube. When I switch back to debian, the mouse loses its grip 
on sanity. If I pull the mouse cable out of the socket and replace it, 
then the mouse regains its composure.

I get some lost synchronisation 3 bytes etc etc error message on the 
console when I move the mouse, although I haven't worked out how to 
capture the log to quote it here.

Googling dug up a email about a similar problem, but with Murphy's Law 
in action, there was no solution. Apparently it may have something to do 
with hotplug.

I tried to deconfigure hotplug for the mouse, but failed. I thought if I 
put 'psmouse' into /etc/hotplug/blacklist, then hotplug wouldn't 
interfere. However it seems hotplug is still operating on the mouse even 
with that module quoted in blacklist.

Any suggestions, anyone? (config below)

Thanks
Adam

PS tried it with gpm too with no luck

from XF86Config:
Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Configured Mouse"
	Driver		"mouse"
	Option		"CorePointer"
	Option		"Device"		"/dev/input/mice"
	Option		"Protocol"		"ImPS/2"
	Option		"Emulate3Buttons"	"true"
	Option		"ZAxisMapping"		"4 5"
EndSection

from console:
gondor:/home/adam# lsmod |grep mouse
psmouse                27528  0