Andy:
Just because I can, I have 3 mouses (mice?) connected to my machine: a PS-2 2-button track-ball wannabe, a USB microsoft thumb-driven trackball, and a USB optical (as opposed to the little ball in the bottom) 3-button mouse. In windows, they all control the cursor quite well. When I try to log in to Linux, the moment that I touch a mouse (even if I only have one -- any one -- mouse connected, my cursor moves extremely rapidly to the top of the screen, and out of sight. My next move is to re-boot and go into Gates-ville.
HI Phil, Jared is right....we'd need to see your X server config file. In the mean time, I'd try with just one mouse connected. That should work.
When's the next meeting? Where? I attended a meeting over a year ago, and you'd just moved into that multi-media room.
The next meeting is Wednesday, March 23rd at 7:00 PM. I post meeting info on the WLUG home page at http://www.wlug.org. The meeting topic is TBD. The location is the Access Grid Room (yes, that's the "multi-media room") located in Morgan Hall. Detailed directions and a campus map can be found on the WLUG website. Later, Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org