From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 6 6:17:16 2002 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 5F82137B401 for ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 06:17:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fep5.cogeco.net (smtp.cogeco.net [216.221.81.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAD6143E42 for ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 06:17:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dlavigne6@cogeco.ca) Received: from d226-42-146.home.cgocable.net (d226-42-146.home.cgocable.net [24.226.42.146]) by fep5.cogeco.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83BAB5A6B; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 09:16:58 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 09:18:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Dru X-X-Sender: dlavigne6@dhcp-17-14.kico2.on.cogeco.ca To: Nick Slager Cc: Lucky Green , Subject: Re: Mouse jumping all over the place in X In-Reply-To: <20021006020332.A69098@zith.net> Message-ID: <20021006091739.B1552-100000@dhcp-17-14.kico2.on.cogeco.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Nick Slager wrote: > Thus spake Lucky Green (shamrock@cypherpunks.to): > > > I just bought a Memorex MX4200 PS/2 optical mouse. When attempting to > > use X with the new mouse, the pointer jumps all over the place upon the > > slightest movement of the mouse. > > > > The relevant entry of XF86config follows: > > > > Section "InputDevice" > > Identifier "Mouse0" > > Driver "mouse" > > Option "Protocol" "MouseSystems" > > Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse" > > EndSection > > MouseSystems is almost certainly not the correct protocol. > > Try changing it to "auto" or "PS/2". Except use "Auto" as it is case sensitive. Been bitten by that one before :) Dru To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message