Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 14:26:04 -0800 From: Beech Rintoul <akbeech@anchoragerescue.org> To: Goran Runfeldt <goranrunfeldt@home.se>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Keyboard and mouse problems Message-ID: <01052514260400.00756@galaxy.anchoragerescue.org> In-Reply-To: <20010526000926.A29443@home.se> References: <20010526000926.A29443@home.se>
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On Friday 25 May 2001 14:09, Goran Runfeldt wrote:
> I'm having some problems with my mouse in FreeBSD 4.3
> I have a "Logitech Cordless MouseMan" mouse.
> When I use moused and configure X to use /dev/sysmouse with protocol
> "SysMouse" the mouse behaves very strange. The left button gets pressed
> whenever i move the mouse.
> Here is my config:
>
> rc.conf:
> moused_type="auto" (or "intellimouse", same problem with both)
> moused_enable="YES"
> moused_port="/dev/psm0"
>
> XF86Config:
> Identifier "Mouse0"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "Protocol" "SysMouse"
> Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
> Option "Buttons" "5"
> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
>
> I'm using XFree86-4.0.3_3 compiled with "WITH_MATROX_GXX_DRIVER".
> My windowmanager is fvwm-2.3.32.
>
> I have tried to get around this but then I stumbled on another "bug".
> If I turn off moused and configure X to use /dev/psm0 with protocol
> "Auto" the mouse works fine (mostly, see below) in X. However, when I
> am in textmode the keyboard sometimes just stops to function.
> This happens randomly, and only when in textmode.
> The console stays in this frozen mode for a random amount of time,
> usually from 5 seconds to 5 minutes. I can login to the box via the
> network and do 'vidcontrol -s 11 < /dev/ttyv0' which will switch me
> back into X, if I then switch back to textmode everything works again.
> I have NOT pressed Scroll Lock, the text-cursor is still there.
> When the console gets back to normal the keypresses that I have made
> don't show up. This _never_ happens when I have moused running, and
> removing "-m" from allscreens_flags in rc.conf doesn't help either.
> This happens both when I am running X in the "background" and when X
> isn't running. My keyboard is a "Logitech Cordless Desktop Pro".
>
> Another thing, it happens quite often that I get this kernelmessage:
> ---
> /kernel: psmintr: out of sync (0000 != 0008).
> last message repeated 125 times
> ---
> It usually happens directly on boot and continues until I reboot, then
> I might have the same problem again or the problem might be gone.
> When I use the mouse in X while these messages show up, with or without
> moused, the mouse gets extremely sensitive and fly around from corner to
> corner, clicking buttons randomly, in other words, it gets unusable.
> Same thing with moused in console, the mousepointer just fly around the
> screen, copying and pasting randomly.
>
> Please CC me when replying.
> Goran Runfeldt
I had the same problem. If you are using ps/2 switch it over to USB. There is
a correct driver in USB for that setup. I was never able to get able to get
the mouse working properly in ps/2. Check either GENERIC or LINT if USB isn't
in your kernel.
Beech
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