From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 10 8:43:55 2002 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 C6F5A37B401 for ; Sun, 10 Nov 2002 08:43:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from lancelot.cosmicfire.net (lancelot.cosmicfire.net [64.32.246.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E4A2C43E6E for ; Sun, 10 Nov 2002 08:43:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gs@vacfu.org) Received: (qmail 18220 invoked from network); 10 Nov 2002 16:43:12 -0000 Received: from dh-fw-1.oru.se (HELO rainbowpeace.DH-FW-1.oru.se) (gs@vacfu.org@130.243.97.72) by vacfu.org with SMTP; 10 Nov 2002 16:43:12 -0000 Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 17:42:02 +0100 From: Gustaf Sjoberg To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: /dev/sysmouse and x Message-Id: <20021110174202.411157ac.gs@vacfu.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.3 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.7) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Hi, i run moused on boot through rc.conf, but if i choose /dev/sysmouse as mouse device in XF86Config the mouse behaves really weird. it's kind of hard to explain, but if i move the cursor too fast the buttons seem to "lag". for example, when i try to select a string; if i move the cursor too fast over the area i want to select it skips the first few characters in the string but it works well if i do it slowly. i also noticed that moused cancels the option to use /dev/psm0 (it's a ps2 mouse) in XF86Config, but if i kill it before i start x the mouse works like it should. is this a known "bug slash feature"? can anyone think of a way to get the mouse to work both as moused and under x? i guess i could just start moused manually whenever i need it, but it would be nice to have a working system ;-) thanks in anticipation, Gustaf Sjoberg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message