From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 8 16: 1:44 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A268C37B4E3 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 16:01:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from hardy.inty.net (hardy.inty.net [195.224.93.245]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20E5343EB2 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 16:01:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris@furrie.net) Received: from inty.furrie.net (furrie.net [213.208.115.165]) by hardy.inty.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h0901UL80841 for ; Thu, 9 Jan 2003 00:01:30 GMT Received: from furriebox.furrie.net ([10.6.8.5]) (authenticated bits=0) by inty.furrie.net (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id h0901K68005144 for ; Thu, 9 Jan 2003 00:01:20 GMT Subject: Mouse Murder From: Christopher J Phillips To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 09 Jan 2003 00:01:21 +0000 Message-Id: <1042070481.244.28.camel@furriebox.furrie.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender-IP: 10.6.8.5 X-Been-Processed: yes X-INT-DeliveryDone: h0901K68005144 X-suppress-rcpt-virus-notify: yes X-Skip-Virus-Check: yes X-Virus-Checked: 30741 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chris suggested killing moused like this: - furrie@furriebox% ps -ax | grep moused 123 ?? Ss 0:00.70 moused -p /dev/psm0 -t auto furrie@furriebox% kill -1 123 furrie@furriebox% ps -ax | grep moused 123 ?? Ss 0:00.70 moused -p /dev/psm0 -t auto The process is still there & my pointer aim problems continue :-( Should the pid change? Having tried it like this & my mouse still not aiming correctly, I'm losing hope... Unless you guys can provide any? --- Previously I wrote --- During X sessions, my mouse pointer is fine (usually). Intermittently, and without any "obvious" reason, the mouse pointer aim "shifts" approximately 1.3cm to the right of where the actual pointer is acting. I feel like I have to explain further as its "that weird"... If I wanted to select the ***** section, in the "Test Area:" below, I would position my cursor / pointer in front of the first * & then click_n_drag to the right, till all the *s were selected. In fact what actually happens is that I'd have the @@@@@s selected instead. That's how far out of alignment it goes. It makes things a bit difficult using windows & dialog boxes, when you have to place the pointer over one button, to be able to press another! Test Area: @@@@@***** This "weirdness" also happened when I was using Linux Mandrake 8.2, (before I discovered what a great idea FreeBSD is ;-) Not wanting to sound (too) lame, this didn't ever occur when I used Windows 2k Pro or XP Pro. I get the same problem when in either GNOME or KDE. I had it when I installed FreeBSD 4.7 RELEASE & still have it after updating (tracking STABLE), using CVSup. A reboot is all that will get things back on track for me. I know how to kill moused but I am not sure how to restart it within or without X from the command line (which I might be able to reach without a mouse, right?)... I suppose I could exit X, kill moused, restart it, then get back into X, but I'd still need to know how to run moused (OK, I'm sounding lame now). Just in case you need it: - My Hardware: Compaq Evo N150 Laptop 800MHz Intel Celeron CPU Upgraded to 320MB RAM, (when purchased) Uname -a: FreeBSD furriebox.furrie.net 4.7-STABLE FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE #1: Sun Jan 5 19:39:40 GMT 2003 root@furriebox.furrie.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FURRIEBOX i386 Can anybody point me in the right direction for maybe a some logs that I can peruse to see if anything obvious is afoot? I'm a fan of RTFM but could do with a helpful nudge in the right direction... intY has scanned this email for all known viruses (www.inty.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message