Mouse goes mad , film at 11.

[SlowJet]

Hi,

Yesterdays updates went fine and ran ok.
Then this morning trying to get the updates the mouse and screens get the jitters.
I downloaded the new upadtes and yum quit.
I rebooted and now the checksums won't let me into the mirrors.
and then the mouse started going nuts again.
I telinit 3 - no prompt, I Ctrl-Alt-F1 and login as root
yum clean metadata
yum update got back to the install step
rebooted with the new updates, mouse is really going nuts.
System monitor seems to have a mind of it own but I could see several taks running high.

I opened System, pref's, mouse and started clicking on things, then
when I clicked on the light buld the mouse settled down.
After several clicks I closed it and all seemed to be ok.

I open services and stopped all I didn't need.
Bluetooth, ISDN, CPUsped

Everything seems to be ok now, won't know until I reboot again.

SJ

[SlowJet]

Everything is working ok after another reboot.
That was just strange.
The only hint or clue is the last message in the xorg.o.log

(II) Mouse0: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded - maybe the light bulb caused an interupt?

SJ

[sailor]

I use a optical usb mouse on my laptop...and it will sometimes jump around...never lasts long though

[teethlikelions]

i have the same problem with my usb mouse jumping....

any clues for stopping it?

somebody said to use a piece of white paper as a mouse pad. i tried that and i didn't notice any more jumping but the quality of the mouse's reactions are diminished significantly