Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 10:29:34 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: psmintr: out of sync? Message-ID: <19991029102934.A21035@orion.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910291346121.30583-100000@thelab.hub.org>; from scrappy@hub.org on Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 01:51:34PM -0300 References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910291346121.30583-100000@thelab.hub.org>
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On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 01:51:34PM -0300, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > I just got my boss moved over to FreeBSD from Windows, and we're having a > terrible time with X and mice ... > > She has a PII system, and we've tried both a Logitech Mouseman and > MicroSoft Inteellimouse...we have her box hooked up through a console > switch, since, for now, she needs to shre her mouse/monitor/keyboard with > her old Microsoft machine... > > If I reboot the machine and bring up X, no problems...if I switch to > Microsfot and back again, it starts to generate: > > psmintr: out of sync (#### != ####) > > error messages ... If you have a good smart switch you may be able to reset the mouse and bring it back into sync. For instance my Black Box switch lets me reset the mouse with "Ctl Ctl M W" which usually fixes the sync problems. I believe that serial mice will often resync if you unplug them and then plug them back in. That won't work with PS/2 mice though (at least I don't think it will, the last real PS/2s I used would require a power cycle after pulling the mouse). If your switch can't handle it then you'll probably have to get a new one. -- Brooks To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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