From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 29 17:15:15 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B86A216A4CE for ; Sun, 29 Feb 2004 17:15:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp02.wxs.nl (smtp02.wxs.nl [195.121.6.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87F4F43D2D for ; Sun, 29 Feb 2004 17:15:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl) Received: from kruij557.speed.planet.nl (ipd50a97ba.speed.planet.nl [213.10.151.186]) by smtp02.wxs.nl (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.14 (built Mar 18 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HTV006EEIH4UE@smtp02.wxs.nl> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 01 Mar 2004 02:22:20 +0100 (MET) Received: from alex.lan (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kruij557.speed.planet.nl (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i211EW5N069920; Mon, 01 Mar 2004 02:14:32 +0100 Received: (from akruijff@localhost) by alex.lan (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i211EVfn069919; Mon, 01 Mar 2004 02:14:31 +0100 Content-return: prohibited Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 02:14:31 +0100 From: Alex de Kruijff In-reply-to: <20040229110430.C32005@jmhowell.com> To: "Jerry M. Howell II" Message-id: <20040301011431.GF42000@alex.lan> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i References: <20040229093926.A32005@jmhowell.com> <20040229175550.GB42000@alex.lan> <20040229110430.C32005@jmhowell.com> X-Authentication-warning: alex.lan: akruijff set sender to freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl using -f cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ps2 optical wheel mouse problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 01:15:15 -0000 On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 11:04:30AM -0700, Jerry M. Howell II wrote: > On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 06:55:50PM +0100, Alex de Kruijff wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 09:39:26AM -0700, Jerry M. Howell II wrote: > > > Hello all., > > > > > > I recently installed freeBSD 5.2 and have a problem. I have most > > > everything working corectly except the mouse. I set it to auto and it > > > detects the mouse but it jumps all over the screen. It's a prety > > > standard optical wheel mouse that seems to work fine under 4.8 and > > > under all distros of linux I've used so far. I've tried every > > > configuration I can think of under the sun. Does anyone have any > > > recomendations? > > > > Hi, > > > > There are two main ways of setting up the mouse. The first is to go only > > with the X config and the second is to rely on the consile setup. If you > > didn't use the second option, then please read the FAQ on the website. > > Could you please tell use wich option you used? It would also be a handy > > to have the configuration files or those parts there of that are > > relevant. > > > First I used /stand/sysinstall and selected the auto selecton. It > detected the mouse but started jumping. After that I decided to select > auto from the xf86config script, when that didn't work I tried sysmouse > but got no beter response. One thing I did notice one thing. If I hook > up a normal ps2 mouse and enable the mouse it works fine, even when I > swap out the normal mouse for the optical but when I reboot if I have > the optical mouse atached it goes back to jumping around. Realy weard. I have a wireless optical mouse ( MX700 from logitech) and thats working fine. Could you try and see if you have a working mouse in the console by setting in /etc/rc.conf these lines: moused_flags="-a .4" moused_port="/dev/psm0" moused_type="auto" moused_enable="YES" -- Alex Articles based on solutions that I use: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/