From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 20 13:40:51 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 441821065675 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:40:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vakeera@gmail.com) Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com (wf-out-1314.google.com [209.85.200.171]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 276A68FC33 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:40:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vakeera@gmail.com) Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 25so973777wfa.7 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 06:40:50 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; bh=Es6o+tqHYd+2n4cYXZgwy2intD3hJde7Lx1IOuUG6Y0=; b=JkQutGPBn5OXyzBcKOZSNLA1KBfUWaKcfvWhRUmTPfumZL3aBQs4oWe/0CDMVdwoQ2HV7EGIki3uUjRvD5xhAQ8wKZsUX5xzhJHm607IhGoFEwOoflfSIk13da5jQDKJqyDI5cmQUpB8cSWs23xErr6CwGW548B2D7ZcrTz8owo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=UV3L22RzsV+tFCq2Lx2LoyjgUDX5mrKvYZXO3Em81um2kxUtDzZjcB5n4gGWTLgo9EoaM4tF0B9HmvVTS7jKvX7TlE7YBRVwIguT41t+DjIpaNCtBIkNWBZjfbxWn3B+fdHJfy1ukCV7mfK7dMMj7ysGmCWtB1AtjCTY0v52FTY= Received: by 10.142.141.21 with SMTP id o21mr1149553wfd.56.1206018715879; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 06:11:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.204.17 with HTTP; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 06:11:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:11:55 -0400 From: "Alexander Dunn" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Jittery PS/2 Mouse in 7.0-RELEASE 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, 20 Mar 2008 13:40:51 -0000 I have a PS/2, wired, optical mouse that I have been using flawlessly with Windows and several Linux distributions for years now. I would like to switch to Free BSD, but the mouse becomes very jittery within FreeBSD. I have tried the mouse with both moused and X controlling the mouse, but in both cases the result is the same. The cursor on the screen tracks properly when I move my mouse in a wide arc, but when I move the mouse in small increments the cursor does not follow the mouse at all. This makes it very difficult to click on small targets such as an OK button. Relevant Information: uname -a output: FreeBSD kienjakenobi 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #3: Sun Mar 16 15:45:08 EDT 2008 root@kienjakenobi:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL i386 dmesg mouse output: psm0: irq 12 on atkbdc0 psm0: [GIANT-LOCKED] psm0: [ITHREAD] psm0: model IntelliMouse, device ID 3 xorg.conf: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "PS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/psm0" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection This does not seem to be a problem with X for several reasons. First, I use this version of X.org with Linux with the same config that is shown above without this problem. Second, when I give control of the mouse over to moused, the problem does not change. It is visible even in the console when using moused. I am using a custom kernel, but this problem does not change even when I am using the GENERIC kernel. Based on this information I think I have crossed out most potentional porblem locations, but I hope I missed something.