Comment 68 for bug 119194

I posted that I was having these mouse problems. Also that I was having a problem where mouse and keyboard will stop responding when using firefox or opera. Freeze is so bad That I have to unplug the computer. Reinstall did not help.

I thought these were unrelated, at least in my case. It turns out they may be related. I tried a third mouse. One with a, gasp, ball. While response feels clunky compared to what I was used to with an optical mouse the freezes and erratic mouse pointer have gone away. This includes no more mouse errors in logs.

Is it possible that Ubuntu is having problems with optical mice? If any of you have a ball type mouse give it a try. Please post if this does or doesn't stop erratic mouse and errors.