Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 00:19:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Daniel Flickinger <attila@hun.org> To: FreeBSD-CURRENT <current@freebsd.org> Subject: X: PS/2 mouse problems Message-ID: <20021012001954.c16F68179@hun.org>
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I managed to compile XFree-4 from ports on 29 Sep, and
Mozilla from ports on 07 Oct. X has not crashed even
with both Mozilla and Xemacs running --Xemacs has
locked, but has not taken the X server down. The OS is
CURRENT as of 0000 GMT 11 Oct (today).
HOWEVER, the cursor movement is not tracking with a PS/2
mouse --it moves, but it skips, misses pulses, false
triggers, and does other assorted weird tricks; you can
select with some mouse gymnastics, but you can not
navigate pull down menus or move/resize windows --let
alone even consider cut and paste operations or button 2
(emulated).
I have no choice but to define the mouse in
/etc/X11/XF86Config as:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "SysMouse"
Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
Option "Emulate3Buttons"
Option "Emulate3Timeout" "155"
EndSection
This is the same basic declaration that was used for
XFree86-3 --and worked fine with a PS/2 mouse for years
despite the obvious call for /dev/sysmouse.
If I declare: 'Option "Device" "/dev/psm0"' and 'Option
"Protocol"' either "PS/2" or "SysMouse", X refuses to
load, flashing a jumbled screen before cashing in.
Then, to make sure PS/2 is not the problem, I bought a
generic serial mouse, which 'moused' said was reporting
as 'SysMouse', and connected it to /dev/cuaa0. Same
results in X.
Both the PS/2 and Serial mice work perfectly in the
ttyv? virtual terminals, including cut and paste and
responding to the rate adjustment (-a).
The system is a Tyan 2642 SMP Thunder 7 with dual 1.2G
CPUs and 512 Meg DDR 266 and two IBM 10,000 RPM 160 MB
SCSI drives. No plug in cards other than the Matrox
Millenium II with 8 Mbyte.
Anyone else having the problem? any solutions or
comments?
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