From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031114 Description of problem: If you run redhat-config-mouse and choose Genius Netscroll+ mouse and then restart X the mouse becomes unusable. (The mouse is an Optical Genius Netscroll+ mouse.) In detail this means The mouse pointer appears in the bottom left. If you attempt to move it it goes about a quarter of the way across the screen then flits about randomly "clicking" on random thing. However, if you choose "Generic 3 button PS/2" everything works just fine. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): XFree86 4.3.0 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run redhat-config-mouse and choose Genius Netscroll+ mouse 2. Restart X 3. Move mouse pointer Actual Results: The mouse pointer appears in the bottom left. If you attempt to move it it goes about a quarter of the way across the screen then flits about randomly "clicking" on random thing. Expected Results: It should function as normal Additional info: The "Generic 3 button PS/2" works just fine for me Genius Netscroll+ mouse.
Try using a different mouse protocol instead. You will need to reboot your computer after changing the protocol configuration because PS/2 and serial mouse hardware often hang if the wrong protocol is chosen, and only a hardware reset fixes it. If you can't get the mouse to work at all, then I recommend reporting this as a bug to XFree86.org and seeking technical assistance on the XFree86 mailing lists.
As reported above it does work when you choose "Generic 3 button PS/2". I have reported it at http://bugs.xfree86.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1145
I assume the "scroll" part of the mouse does not work if you use Generic PS/2?
The scroll does appear to work with "Generic 3 button PS/2"
Ok, I think we can consider this to be NOTABUG then. It's possible that the "netmouse" entry present is for another different model of netmouse or something, and that yours is not the same. Since it works with Generic 3 button, it's safe to consider that to be the proper configuration. Thanks. Closing NOTABUG.