From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 14 01:06:45 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3BF3106564A for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 01:06:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 756808FC0C for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 01:06:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o9E16gZ9015736; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 19:06:42 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) with ESMTP id o9E16gRt015733; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 19:06:42 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 19:06:42 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: Polytropon In-Reply-To: <20101013224446.382b5293.freebsd@edvax.de> Message-ID: References: <20101011032642.GA3354@thought.org> <20101011164152.GA4652@thought.org> <20101011193153.758efde5.freebsd@edvax.de> <4CB411AF.5050109@qeng-ho.org> <20101012221020.1a8dcd90.freebsd@edvax.de> <20101012233002.GA4957@thought.org> <20101013014326.6630e3b5.freebsd@edvax.de> <20101013032018.GA3163@thought.org> <20101013055906.bdc5f644.freebsd@edvax.de> <20101013224446.382b5293.freebsd@edvax.de> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Wed, 13 Oct 2010 19:06:42 -0600 (MDT) Cc: Gary Kline , FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: mouse problems.... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 01:06:45 -0000 On Wed, 13 Oct 2010, Polytropon wrote: >> Finally, a "jumpy mouse" problem >> with moused on console screams that it's the KVM, not moused or USB or >> xorg config. > > I'm not 100% sure about that. Your article located at > http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/aei.html states: > > Other times, particularly if hald is running, typed > characters don't show up on the screen until the > mouse is moved, and mouse movement itself is jerky > and doesn't react smoothly. > > I thought about something like that. That happens in X. I don't recall any problems in console mode, but may not have tested it. >> USB mice cause moused to be run anyway, but there are differences. If >> you want switching between X and console to be fast, enable moused. > > And this is possible in combination with devd that "remote-contols" > moused for USB mice? And does moused handle "disappearing" and > "reappearing" devices properly? AFAIK, yes. Try it: with a USB mouse, set moused_enable="NO", reboot, switch from console to X and back with alt-f9 and then ctrl-alt-f1. Note the delay, particularly switching from console to X. Now enable moused, reboot, and try it again. I don't know what causes the difference. Certainly it's something that could be tolerated if you don't switch between console and X much.