From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 2 19:28:56 2003 Return-Path: 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 6462A16A4CE for ; Tue, 2 Dec 2003 19:28:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B37F43FBF for ; Tue, 2 Dec 2003 19:28:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) id hB33Sskc031837; Tue, 2 Dec 2003 21:28:54 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 21:28:54 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: charles pelletier Message-ID: <20031203032854.GD64382@dan.emsphone.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-OS: FreeBSD 5.2-BETA X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: weird mouse reaction and movement 5.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 03:28:56 -0000 In the last episode (Dec 02), charles pelletier said: > So I just installed, for the first time, 5.1 on a new machine. My > problem is this: In Sysinstall, when i select my mouse (ps/2, MS 3 > button optical) then enable and test the port, all of a sudden I see > an early part of the installation wizard (the partitioning part) and > i can't escape out of it. It is as if the mouse scrolls through a > history of what i've done page by page until it reaches that part. I > can ctrl-c out of sysinstall and it is as if nothing ever happened. > > Is this a strange event to anyone else? Is there a way to fix it w/ > flags, etc? It was suggested to me by a friend that I kill moused > before I start up sysinstall but it isn't running in the first place. I've never seen that before, but you can probably just skip the mouse configuration part, and then set it up after the install is done (for your mouse, just adding moused_enable="YES" to /etc/rc.conf should suffice, since ps/2+autosense is the default). -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com