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From: Wayne Baety <mrfoine@enteract.com>
To: john cooper <john@isi.co.jp>
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Subject: Re: Quick (freebsd 2.2.1 / xf86 3.2 / flakey mouse) question
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On Tue, 13 May 1997, john cooper wrote:

> Hi,
>     I searched the freebsd and XF86 FAQ's but found nothing 
> corresponding the the problem I'm experiencing.  I have a
> ps/2 mouse systems mouse that exhibits wierd behavior
> under both fvwm and twm.

I get this too but with a serial mouse.....the problem goes away whenever
i unplug the floppy drive cable though...what gives?

> 
> The cursor can be moved with the mouse, however the cursor
> instantly 'homes' back to the lower left corner of the screen
> at seemingly random times.  The frequency of this is so high
> that X is effectively unuseable.
> 
> The mouse is at 0x60, IRQ 12 as usual and conflicts with
> no other device as best as I can tell.  I suspect some
> xf86 configuration problem here as the erratic behavior
> occurs in fvwm and twm.  I tried selecting mouse comm
> protocols other than ps/2, which only made things worse.
> 

im not using anything but the mouse on COM1 and its irq.

EQ:
NEC Floppy drive using an in board PCI floppy controller w/ a PCI to ISA
Bridge (shows up on the probe list). As far as i know the board only uses
IRQ 14 and 15 for the HD and the standard floppy irq.