🚀 go-pugleaf

greetings! i have recently installed linux (1.2.13) from a slackware
distribution onto my pentium. have got X windows up and running,
but am having some difficulty using my mouse. its not that it freezes up
(from what i can gather this is the most common problem) - it is the
reverse really ie, its hyperactive. it jumps around all over the screen, 
disappearing from one place and re-materialising in another totally 
random location. this makes it very difficult to do anything at all.

the mouse is a microsoft "home" mouse, with the following in "XF86Config"

Section "Pointer"
  Protocol "Microsoft"
  Device "/dev/mouse"
EndSection

I have also tried another microsoft mouse, one of the "ergonomically"
shaped variety (not sure what its proper name is). it does the same thing

i don't know if it's important or not, but the video card is a diamond
stealth64 pci. 

hope someone can help me?

thanks

andrew swan