From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 30 09:09:09 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 7324916A4CE for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 09:09:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from falcon.midgard.homeip.net (h76n3fls24o1048.bredband.comhem.se [213.67.148.76]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3AA3B43F93 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 09:09:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ertr1013@student.uu.se) Received: (qmail 999 invoked by uid 1001); 30 Oct 2003 17:09:04 -0000 Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 18:09:04 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson To: Jonathan Arnold Message-ID: <20031030170904.GA99767@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: Jonathan Arnold , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20031011232757.GC356@dds.nl> <3FA13DB4.8010401@buddydog.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3FA13DB4.8010401@buddydog.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG 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 17:09:09 -0000 X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 17:09:09 -0000 On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 11:35:00AM -0500, Jonathan Arnold wrote: > 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. That is not quite correct. If you have X set up to use /dev/sysmouse as a mouse device, then X will get mouse movements from moused. Fiddling with the settings for moused can fix X11 problems, if X is configured to use moused. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se