From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 30 08:35:06 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 44A3A16A4CE for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 08:35:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail6.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A4FD43F75 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 08:35:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdarnold@buddydog.org) Received: (qmail 10537 invoked from network); 30 Oct 2003 16:35:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO buddydog.org) ([66.92.76.225]) (envelope-sender ) by mail6.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 30 Oct 2003 16:35:00 -0000 Message-ID: <3FA13DB4.8010401@buddydog.org> Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 11:35:00 -0500 From: Jonathan Arnold User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030916 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20031011232757.GC356@dds.nl> In-Reply-To: <20031011232757.GC356@dds.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Mouse 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: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 16:35:06 -0000 Alex de Kruijff wrote: > On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 09:30:30AM +0800, Gil Agno Virtucio wrote: > >>and thanks again for reading this email. I had previously written an >>email to you about my mouse problems. Everytime I try to run KDE, when >>I move the mouse the cursor moves to the upper right hand corner. I >>changed the protocol to AUTO in the configuration file as per the >>suggestions of the people who responded to my email but this did not >>help. I know that the mouse works(for sure). >> >>Could there be anything else that I need to change? >> >>The mouse is a PS/2 type. It even works(moves around properly) when >>I'm in the terminal interface screen. >> > > This is the way i've set it up: > > Relevant /etc/rc.conf: > > moused_flags="-a .4" # This allows you to fine tune the mouse > moused_enable="YES" > moused_port="/dev/psm0" > moused_type="auto" Someone will certainly correct me if I'm wrong, but moused has *nothing* to do with the mouse in X. moused runs the mouse when you are in text mode, if you have vidcontrol set to do that. If you never run in text mode, you can safely remove 'moused' from your rc.conf. And don't bother fiddling with it to fix an X11 problem. -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org) Daemon Dancing in the Dark, a FreeBSD blog: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog