From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Aug 6 00:36:54 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id AAA29140 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 6 Aug 1995 00:36:54 -0700 Received: from aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw ([140.109.40.248]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA29134 for ; Sun, 6 Aug 1995 00:36:51 -0700 Received: (from taob@localhost) by aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw (8.6.11/8.6.9) id PAA05202; Sun, 6 Aug 1995 15:36:48 +0800 Date: Sun, 6 Aug 1995 15:36:48 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao To: FREEBSD-HACKERS-L Subject: Re: PS/2-style mouse on Compaq In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 4 Aug 1995, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: > > yes, just flip and back does it--could be a lot worse. Does anyone know if this is a FreeBSD console problem, or a FreeBSD PS/2 mouse driver problem, or an XFree86 problem? To summarize: one certain combinations of hardware with a PS/2-style mouse, the pointer upon starting XFree86 is inactive until you flip to a virtual console, then back to the X console. -- Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org