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Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> writes:

> On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 12:31:27PM -0400, Kenneth Culver wrote:
> > > > > I am an extreme newbie at FreeBSD.  I have it installed but when I go
> > > > > into the Xserver in either of the two GUIs I get a weird mouse that
> > > > > seems to only be able to stay on the very top of the screen and has
> > > > > no vertical movement.
> > > > >
> > > > > I have it setup on Auto and PS/2 Busmouse settings.  It works when
> > > > > the config is run from the command line but it blows up like I
> > > > > described upon entering the GUI (i.e. KDE)
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > I was always told to use "sysmouse" and auto.
> > >
> > >
> > > 	Same here.
> > >
> > I had this problem when I let X open the /dev entry for the mouse on it's
> > own, but if I use moused the problem disappears. So I'd suggest that you
> > make sure you're using moused, and then make sure it's using
> > /dev/sysmouse. If you're still having the problem after that, then I'm
> > out of ideas :-P
> > 
> 
> 	Right.  moused is essential.  Forgot about that piece of the
> 	puzzle.  
> 
>   154  ??  Ss     1:42.59 moused -p /dev/psm0 -t auto
[snip]

I'm running moused with the same commandline. In my XF86Config, I
    have:

    Option "Protocol"    "MouseSystems"
    Option "Device"      "/dev/sysmouse"

If you have ps/2 and auto for those fields, and are running moused, I
    believe you may get weird problems.