From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jul 27 17:50:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from thehousleys.net (frenchknot.ne.mediaone.net [24.147.224.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00E2D37B505 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 17:50:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@thehousleys.net) Received: from thehousleys.net (baby.int.thehousleys.net. [192.168.0.24]) by thehousleys.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA04399 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 20:50:52 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jim@thehousleys.net) Message-ID: <3980D8E8.BFAFE490@thehousleys.net> Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 20:50:48 -0400 From: James Housley Organization: The Housleys dot Net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1-RC i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Notes on problem with 4-Stable & XFr3386 4.0 & 4.0.1 and loss of mouse. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a series of notes and a couple of fixes. It will ramble, sorry. I installed XFree86 4.0, binary from the web, shortly after it became available. Version 3.3.6 only support 8bit color on my S3 video card. Version 4.0 support full 24bit color but sucked the processor. When in X usage was about 20% and when no it would go up to about 90%. My NIC, initially a DLink 530-TX and then 3COM 3C905-TX, both would loose data and interrupts. The 3Com more gracefully. I am still waiting for the binary for 4.0.1 from XFree86. Not wanting to compile the monster and being a little unsure about the questions. Finally I got fed-up and did it. Ver 4.0.1 found my mouse at /dev/mouse -> /dev/psm0. But a couple of times after switching from X to text and back the mouse would be gone!!!! But editing the mouse protocol from "auto" to "PS/2" seems to have fixed the problem. Also my useage for X sits below 1% for X and text modes. Jim -- Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message