From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 21 8:42:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtprelay1.adelphia.net (smtprelay1.adelphia.net [64.8.25.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 107F237B403 for ; Sat, 21 Jul 2001 08:42:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ipthomas_77@yahoo.com) Received: from scraemondaemon.my.domain ([24.49.96.3]) by smtprelay1.adelphia.net (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GGTY7G02.MT8; Sat, 21 Jul 2001 11:40:28 -0400 Received: (from ipt@localhost) by scraemondaemon.my.domain (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f6LFe6n05399; Sat, 21 Jul 2001 11:40:06 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ipt) Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 11:40:06 -0400 From: User & Ian Patrick Thomas To: "J. Seth Henry" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: moused and Xfree86 4.0.3 tangles Message-ID: <20010721114006.B5115@localhost> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from jshamlet@home.com on Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 09:33:19AM -0400 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 As it was put forth by J. Seth Henry on Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 09:33:19AM -0400... > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Mouse0" > Driver "mouse" > Option "Protocol" "MouseSystems" Change the above to auto and ... > Option "Buttons" "5" > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4,5" > Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" change the above to /dev/sysmouse. > EndSection > > I have tried every protocol (in XF86Config) that seemed to match, including > "MouseSystems" "Auto" "Microsoft" "Intellimouse". I also tried attaching it > directly to /dev/psm0 - but as long as moused is running, the mouse doesn't > work correctly in X. > > Oddly enough, the mouse works fine for moused, but when I kill moused - the > mouse refuses to work in X at all - not even the screwy movement across the > top of the screen. I figure that may be due to locking though. > > I have looked in the mailing list, and found that this is not the first time > someone has run across this problem. I was hoping someone had found a > solution since March. > > Thanks, > Seth Henry > jshamlet@home.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message I'm currently running XFree86 4.0.3_3 from the ports with the above two options and I am able to use moused and X without any problems. Let me know how it turns out. Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message