From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 7 23:35:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from stargate.sse-erfurt.de (stargate.sse-erfurt.de [62.132.15.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B9F8237B416 for ; Sun, 7 Apr 2002 23:35:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: (2166 bytes) by stargate.sse-erfurt.de via sendmail with P:stdio/R:inet_hosts/T:smtp (sender: ) id for ; Mon, 8 Apr 2002 08:35:32 +0200 (MET DST) (Smail-3.2.0.101 1997-Dec-17 #7 built DST-Jul-30) Received: from (master [192.105.75.4]) by stargate.sse-erfurt.de via smap (V2.1) id xma023258; Mon, 8 Apr 02 08:35:25 +0200 Received: (from kittler@localhost) by master.sse-erfurt.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) id IAA29848; Mon, 8 Apr 2002 08:35:22 +0200 From: Lutz Kittler MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15537.14890.7569.269847@master.sse-erfurt.de> Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 08:35:22 +0200 (MEST) To: "J. Seth Henry" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FBSD4.5 & Xfree86 4.1 In-Reply-To: <000001c1dea4$e40f8630$0201a8c0@guinevere> References: <000001c1dea4$e40f8630$0201a8c0@guinevere> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 7) "Biscayne" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG J. Seth Henry writes: > Hello all, > > I recently installed FreeBSD 4.5-REL on a Compaq IA-1 internet appliance > with Xfree86 4.1 from the ports list. I went this route because I had a > ready XF86Config file for Xfree86 4.x, and the LCD was having issues > during configuration. > > > > Graphically, X 4.x works great. Unfortunately, the mouse doesn't seem to > work right. It is a PS/2 mouse, and it works fine in gpm mode, but the > mouse buttons don't register quite often in X. For example, it might > take several clicks before the WM does anything. I have verified that > this is specific to FreeBSD and Xfree86 4.x (the mouse worked properly > under Xfree86 3.x - but the display didn't). I checked to make sure it > wasn't a WM problem (by loading a program directly through xinit) I've > also verified that the mouse clicks actually don't register - I have > waited up to 10 minutes with no response. > > > > Does anyone know what might be causing this, and how to fix it? > Hi , I had the same problems. I disabled the mouse daemon and configured mouse directly in XF86Config ( not as sysmouse , but as /dev/psm0 - see faq example 11-4 ). Now mouse works okay. Lutz To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message