From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 7 18:58:14 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 B9D9837B401 for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 18:58:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.monochrome.org (b4.ebbed1.client.atlantech.net [209.190.235.180]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5365C43ED1 for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 18:58:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Received: from localhost (faro [192.168.1.7]) by mail.monochrome.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA52663; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 21:57:43 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 21:57:43 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Hill X-Sender: chris@localhost To: Christopher J Phillips Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X mouse pointer aim intermittently becomes incorrect... In-Reply-To: <1041989047.986.57.camel@furriebox.furrie.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On 8 Jan 2003, Christopher J Phillips 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. [snip] > 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). You don't have to exit X to restart moused. You could $ ps -ax | grep mouse 200 ?? Is 0:00.35 moused -p /dev/psm0 -t auto <-- find moused's pid 98347 p1 S+ 0:00.02 grep mouse ...and then $kill -1 200 <-- restart it (you may need to be [su'd to] root to do that) Sorry, I can't help with the underlying problem, though it sounds like you may have the wrong thing specified in your XF86Config. HTH... -- Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message