From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 24 9:55:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from cheddar.netmonger.net (cheddar.netmonger.net [209.54.21.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7609115264 for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 09:55:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris@cheddar.netmonger.net) Received: (from chris@localhost) by cheddar.netmonger.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA16064; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 12:55:04 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <20000124125504.A15109@netmonger.net> Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 12:55:04 -0500 From: Christopher Masto To: Donn Miller , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Moused hanging... References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Donn Miller on Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 02:13:17PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 02:13:17PM -0500, Donn Miller wrote: > Hi, I've noticed a strange problem with vidcontrol and moused recently > with current. I also had the same problem about 3 weeks back, and it > doesn't seem to be occurring all that regularly. > > > Here's what I was doing: I had just exited out of X, XFree86 Version > 3.9.17. I had two sessions of bladeenc going simultaneously (if that even > matters). I'm guessing maybe the issue is with the PCI bus being accessed > by moused and the ATA driver at the same time, since bladeenc does > generate some disk activity. Anyway, I heard a `pop' through my speakers, > and at the same time, moused went dead. I su'd to root, killed and > restarted moused. I could not get my moused cursor back (tried vidcontrol > -m off ; vidcontrol -m on a couple of times). This used to happen to me a lot with my Mouse Systems PS/2 mouse. I blamed it on static. I'm not sure when or why it stopped happening. -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Communications chris@netmonger.net info@netmonger.net http://www.netmonger.net Free yourself, free your machine, free the daemon -- http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message