How do I resolve any erratic mouse behavior when using it with a KVM switch in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4?

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Release Found: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

Symptom:

You experience erratic jumps of the mouse cursor while using it over a KVM (Keyboard Video Mouse) switch and you use GRUB as your boot loader.

Solution:

Add the boot option psmouse.proto=imps in /etc/grub.conf and reboot into that kernel.

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