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Date:      30 Jun 2002 18:18:39 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Dinesh Nadarajah <n_dinesh@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Mouse problems under X/Gnome
Message-ID:  <1025475520.48597.20.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020630215830.88083.qmail@web11202.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Sun, 2002-06-30 at 17:58, Dinesh Nadarajah wrote:
> Well,
> 
> I intsalled my first Gnome/FreeBSD system. All went smooth. Well,
> actually I have not done my cvsup yet to get the latest Gnome distro...
> but that comes next.
> 
> I have a question though, When I first installed my FreeBSD system, I
> loaded twm. My mouse (PS/2) worked fine under it. Then when I installed
> gnome re-ran xf86config to update the memory value, my mouse (when I
> touch it ever so slightly) moves and gets stuck in the upper left
> corner. I have to do CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE to get out of X. I've read that
> this may be an X problem, but none of the solutions worked thus far.
> Any ideas? 

Make sure you're running moused, and your mouse config in XF86Config
looks like:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Mouse0"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "auto"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
EndSection

Joe

> 
> Thanks.
> 
> _Dinesh
> 
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