Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 15:30:11 +0200 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@apropo.ro> To: Laurent Demaret <laurent.demaret@free.fr> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Console ps2 mouse behavior control (was : Re: test) Message-ID: <20031130153011.3bc2115d.itetcu@apropo.ro> In-Reply-To: <34F658A6-2336-11D8-A803-000393A95684@free.fr> References: <20031130112315.GC87835@daemon.org> <34F658A6-2336-11D8-A803-000393A95684@free.fr>
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On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 14:07:53 +0100
Laurent Demaret <laurent.demaret@free.fr> wrote:
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> Le dimanche, 30 nov 2003, =E0 12:23 Europe/Paris, Dev Tugnait a =E9crit :
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> > its not quiet we are alive and kicking :)
> Good, let's see if you can kick me out from my mess ;-/
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> My basic purpose is to give my children a so much nice place on their=20
> pc than my one on my mac.
> Instead of their win98 ..
>
> So I rode lots of docs about freebsd (specialy handbook, faq,=20
> beginners), downloaded iso images of the 5.1release and started the=20
> install from cd.
> Everythings were almost nice the first time (with learning, reading,=20
> understanding behind) so far I tried to add wheel mouse to my=20
> configuration.
> It was a bad idea because the next time I started freebsd my rc.conf=20
> had a bad character (eof instead of backquote or whatever) on the 1456=20
> th line (of a 1455 lines file).=20
?? 1455 lines - just curios - what did you put in there ?
my desktop:
it# wc -l /etc/rc.conf
21 /etc/rc.conf
my router:
buh# wc -l /etc/rc.conf
32 /etc/rc.conf
> Maybee because I made change with=20
> abiword ...
> Before that time I had been able to set up a good configuration for my=20
> ps2 mouse and it worked fine inside kde and even in console mode.
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> Unable to make a new rc.conf from the bad one I made a new install of=20
> freebsd but probably not the good one as my kde taskbar don't have=20
> anymore direct to shell button. (I will have a look at that later).
Alt+F2 --> konsole --> OK
> The main trouble I have now is to stop stupid behavior of my mouse : as=20
> soon I move it too fast or move a couple pixels to left it refuges=20
> itself on left edge of the screen. Tried to control that from kde but=20
> did not get any amelioration. Kde mouse is set to sysmouse so I would=20
> like to get a correct mouse behavior from sysinstall test mouse dialog.
> The best thing I can get now is with Microsoft IntelliMouse but pointer=20
> still go as quick as possible to left side of the screen, whichever=20
> protocol I use.
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> I tried many ways to come back the first time I setted, tried to=20
> remember the good words to ask google but at least get exausted : how=20
> to configure freebsd mouse focus (to the macos one) in console mode ?
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> "auto" give me the worse : each move of the mouse act as accept (or=20
> refuse ?) sysinstall dialog "Is the mouse cursor moving"
Please send the output of:
it# dmesg | grep ps2
or
it# cat /var/run/dmesg.boot | grep psm
man moused will give you some hints.
Especilly:
-d Enable debugging messages.
-f Do not become a daemon and instead run as a foreground process.=20
Useful for testing and debugging.
-i info Print specified information and quit.
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IOnut
Unregistered ;) FreeBSD user
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