From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 30 05:29:33 2003 Return-Path: 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 9A68216A4CF for ; Sun, 30 Nov 2003 05:29:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from rdsnet.ro (smtp.rdsnet.ro [62.231.74.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4B5843F85 for ; Sun, 30 Nov 2003 05:29:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from itetcu@apropo.ro) Received: (qmail 19250 invoked from network); 30 Nov 2003 13:29:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro) (81.196.25.19) by mail.rdsnet.ro with SMTP; 30 Nov 2003 13:29:29 -0000 Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 15:30:11 +0200 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu To: Laurent Demaret 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> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.6claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Console ps2 mouse behavior control (was : Re: test) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:29:33 -0000 Note: this should go on questions@, please follow up there. On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 14:07:53 +0100 Laurent Demaret wrote: >=20 > Le dimanche, 30 nov 2003, =E0 12:23 Europe/Paris, Dev Tugnait a =E9crit : >=20 > > its not quiet we are alive and kicking :) > Good, let's see if you can kick me out from my mess ;-/ >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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 ? >=20 > "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. --=20 IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD user