I am having a strange problem with a Belken USB to PS/2 Adapter. (Part
# F5U119vE1).
http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProdu...duct_Id=156482
When I plug a PS/2 mouse into it, it does weird things in Windows XP. I
have tried several different mice, and the ones that cause the most
problems are "microsoft for Gateway 2000" mice with center wheel.

What happens is that the left button does not register sometimes when I
click it, and the right button sometimes clicks all by itself.
Sometimes when I left click, it registers as a right click. My hardware
is a Dell D510 Latitude laptop.

The problem is not as bad with a black "microsoft for Dell" mouse that
I have. I have also tried a two button Compaq mouse, and it seems to
work fine!

I think that just buying a USB mouse would be a better solution. Not
sure how good these adapters are. Is it a problem with the adapter
itself, or is it something specific to the Belken? Maybe even something
quirky with this particular combination of mice, adapter and laptop. I
read a post somewhere that said that these type of adapters can often
be problematic.

Anyone else ever see this kind of strange mouse behavior when using a
USB to PS/2 adapter?

-Bill

Previously liveone (AT) mail (DOT) com wrote:
There are two types of these adaperts. One is a mere electrical
adapter, which uses a mouse controller chip, that can talk both
to USB and PS/2. These are generally unptoblematic. The others
actually attempt a protocoll translation. Since there are many,
many different mouse protocolls out there (which is entrierly
stupid and the USb consortium has displayed amateur level
insight by not standardising the mouse interface to a large
degree...) the second form is very hard to get right.

Arno