From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 14 05:33:23 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 84FFE16A500 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 05:33:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from arindam.mukerjee@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.176]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A49043D49 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 05:33:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from arindam.mukerjee@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id o67so3183316pye for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 22:33:22 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=SYnbI++3T+Nq1kRDuaTwXVWHLhiVAjoWAKX7UCRn401MQr9Ubb7RipANSiMIU/JV7pDCZxLtVqE+J/42/DoP2yDsZiSOVZfaQ+VZMFiyfr82IW+n7d8MVDOLy2PosNff49ns61r4fBr7x23JWolQ1q6/4haPYnkAZthcbOA6l3I= Received: by 10.35.123.2 with SMTP id a2mr14354912pyn; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 22:30:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.13.20 with HTTP; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 22:30:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:00:57 +0530 From: Arindam To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: X Window: Mouse Freeze X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 05:33:23 -0000 Hello everyone. After a bit of a wrestle, I installed my first FreeBSD 6.1 server on a PIII 733MHz with 512 Megs of RAM on a 6.5 Gig slice (a:/, b:swap, d:/var, e:/tmp, f:/usr). I got X Windows working after a little bit more struggle - I now have Afterstep, WindowMaker and fvwm working for me. The single biggest problem I have faced with this installation is configuring my mouse. I have an old 3-button Logitech serial mouse. It is not hard to replace it with a new PS/2 or USB roller mouse. But if I had to do that, I won't be here and I would not care about FreeBSD. On 5.4, I remember the serial port to which my mouse was connected was called /dev/cuaa0. Now it is /dev/cuad0. I find this a little odd. In any case, when I start my X Window session, for a while my mouse is responsive and moving around perfectly. After a few inches of moving here and there, it stops responding and that's it. I have tried doing a: cat /dev/cuad0 from the console and moved the mouse - it spews gibberish which is fine. But it does not budge a bit on my X Window session. I have to stop and restart and everytime it's the same story, except that it moves briefly before freezing. Some points: 1. I can oftentimes see the mouse pointer on the text consoles just after booting, but it does not move. 2. My moused runs with: moused -t microsoft -p /dev/cuad0 I enabled ChordMiddle at the time of xorgconfig so that's enabled in /etc/X11/xorg.config. Cheers, Andy