From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 17 8:20:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from citadel.cequrux.com (citadel.cequrux.com [192.96.22.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 873DD37B635 for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 08:20:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by citadel.cequrux.com (8.8.8/8.6.9) id RAA01209; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 17:20:03 +0200 (SAST) Received: by citadel.cequrux.com via recvmail id 1121; Thu Aug 17 17:19:28 2000 Message-ID: <399C0305.BB5F7778@cequrux.com> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 17:21:41 +0200 From: Graham Wheeler Organization: Cequrux Technologies X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Vivek Khera Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ps2 mouse errors References: <20000817001624.A22518@jupiter.limit.org> <14748.115.748006.95674@onceler.kciLink.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Vivek Khera wrote: > > This happened to me yesterday while compiling Mozilla (which took > longer than a "make buildworld"!) The mouse just went haywire, > clicking and moving all about the screen, rearranging my KDE desktop, > and panel items, randomly selecting menu items. It was quite a sight. It's a long-standing problem that (in my experience) has been present since 4.0 release (and maybe before that; the only boxen I've run 3.x and 2.x on have had M$ serial mice). I have a hacked version of the driver code that, through a couple of horrible kludges, almost entirely eliminates the problem for me. It's not a real fix, just a workaround, and currently only kicks in if the mouse is a Synaptics touchpad (which is what I have), but if anyone wants the source they should mail me. ciao gram -- Dr Graham Wheeler E-mail: gram@cequrux.com Director, Research and Development WWW: http://www.cequrux.com CEQURUX Technologies Phone: +27(21)423-6065 Firewalls/VPN Specialists Fax: +27(21)424-3656 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message