From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 12 15:02:41 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4514716A41F for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 15:02:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail6.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail6.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FAD143D7D for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 15:02:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 12290 invoked from network); 12 Dec 2005 15:02:23 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail6.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 12 Dec 2005 15:02:23 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 1C2402841D; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 10:02:22 -0500 (EST) Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org To: Anthony Agelastos References: <8a6250b20512110733v55ecd95dn27a6138ab1db59b5@mail.gmail.com> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 12 Dec 2005 10:02:22 -0500 In-Reply-To: <8a6250b20512110733v55ecd95dn27a6138ab1db59b5@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <4464pu7401.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 47 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: moused hanging X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 15:02:41 -0000 Anthony Agelastos writes: > Hello everyone, > > For an unknown reason, my mouse lately has been hanging. It has hung with > X11 running and without X11 running. To fix it, I get to a prompt (usually > via Ctrl+Alt+F1 as it tends to happen primarily when in X) and, as root, I > execute > > % kill mousedPID > % moused -p /dev/psm0 > % vidcontrol -m on > > and, if there is music playing, it slurs for several seconds when I > initially move the mouse, and then it is back to working along with the > mouse. If memory serves, this problem started occurring when I configured > the mouse to use the scrollwheel. To do this, I followed the instructions > per the FreeBSD FAQ. > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/x.html#X-AND-WHEEL > > What the FAQ mentions is only related to X11. It has failed on me once when > I booted up FBSD prior to any startx-type of command being run. I have been > running the same version of 6.0-STABLE for over a month now and this problem > has started noticeably occurring a couple of weeks ago. Does anyone have any > ideas? Some additional pertinent information is below. Thank you to everyone > who helps and has helped make FreeBSD a great community. It sounds like it might be an interrupt issue. Is the mouse sharing an interrupt with anything? > > uname -a > FreeBSD ast.home.iq 6.0-STABLE FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE #0: Sat Nov 5 21:29:34 > EST 2005 root@ast.home.iq:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/IQKERNEL i386 > > moused -p /dev/psm0 -i type > sysmouse > > cat /etc/rc.conf | grep moused > moused_enable="YES" > moused_type='auto' > moused_port='/dev/psm0' > > I wanted to mention here that when I change moused_type from auto to ps/2, > it appears to behave more stable. However, in doing this, the scrollwheel > ceases to work in X11. I wanted to also mention that I checked out the FAQ, > Google, and the Handbook and came up empty with all of them . I'm not surprised; I don't think I've heard of this behaviour before.