From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Apr 25 23: 6:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from outmail.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (outmail.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp [160.12.196.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E9D314F5C for ; Sun, 25 Apr 1999 23:06:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp) Received: from zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (IDENT:DTkIgO4lx9x2J1iU+AwAqrXHi29lBVvC@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp [160.12.42.1]) by outmail.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (8.9.3/3.7Wpl2) with ESMTP id PAA29105; Mon, 26 Apr 1999 15:06:36 +0900 (JST) Received: from zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp [160.12.42.1]) by zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (8.7.6+2.6Wbeta7/3.4W/zodiac-May96) with ESMTP id PAA25344; Mon, 26 Apr 1999 15:10:22 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <199904260610.PAA25344@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> To: Markus Holmberg Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp Subject: Re: moused problems In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 25 Apr 1999 21:12:04 +0200." References: Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 15:10:20 +0900 From: Kazutaka YOKOTA Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >I've had a problem with moused for a while now, which is that there seems >to be a race condition if it will work or not. > >I load moused like this: "moused -p /dev/mouse -t intellimouse" > >When it doesn't work, I simply don't get any response by moving the mouse. >This happens about 1/3 of the times when I boot. It usually helps to kill >-9 moused and try to reload it a few times (up to 10 times). > >I have checked that the hardware is ok, and it works fine in Windows NT. > >One thing that especially quizzes me is that the mouse always correctly >detects the mouse type (intellimouse) when running "moused -p /dev/mouse >-i all", even immediately before and after I try to (re)start moused >without success. Then, you should run moused as: moused -p /dev/mouse -t auto So long as "moused -p /dev/mouse -i all" runs fine, moused should run fine with "-t auto". When you connect a mouse to the PS/2 mouse port, you should always use "-t ps/2" or "-t auto". All other protocol types are for serial mice. If your mouse is connected to a serial port and the mouse is not a PnP mouse, you must specify a protocol type. If the mouse does support the PnP specification, you can use "-t auto" and all should be fine. As "moused -p /dev/mouse -i all" works, your serial mouse supports the PnP spec, you should just use "-t auto". Please read the man page for moused(8). Kazu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message