Vakkotaur

Earlier this month I swapped KVM switches and a pointer weirdness went away. It came back. And it stayed. I've cycled power on both computer & KVM and the jumpy pointer stayed jumpy. I swapped out USB-PS/2 converters and things still stayed jumpy.

I gave up and used the trackball I had been using with the laptop. That trackball is PS/2 for real, no silly USB converter needed. That one also is working just fine. I'm using it now and all seems well.

Just to see if it would work, I plugged the USB-PS/2 trackball into caspian the laptop and brought that up. Son of a Gunn diode, it works right and isn't jumping around the screen like an overcaffeinated squirrel. Evidently there's just something about the combination of belgian's hardware, a KVM, and a USB-PS/2 converter that makes things goofy.

Fortunately things worked out with just swapping stuff around. At least I didn't need to spend any money to get things working as I expect them to.