From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 28 9:35:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from isds.duke.edu (davinci.isds.duke.edu [152.3.22.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5A3737B422 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 09:35:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from feta.isds.duke.edu (feta.isds.duke.edu [152.3.22.76]) by isds.duke.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA31611 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 12:35:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from sto@localhost) by feta.isds.duke.edu (8.11.0/8.9.3) id e8SGZdZ62001 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 12:35:39 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from sto) Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 12:35:33 -0400 From: "Sean O'Connell" To: FreeBSD stable Subject: Re: mouse broken in X-4.0.1 (cvsup yesterday) Message-ID: <20000928123533.K61696@stat.Duke.EDU> Reply-To: "Sean O'Connell" Mail-Followup-To: Sean O'Connell , FreeBSD stable References: <20000928115659.A27309@freebee.attica.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from ftobin@uiuc.edu on Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 11:24:38AM -0500 X-Organization: Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Frank Tobin stated: : Andre Goeree, at 11:56 -0000 on Thu, 28 Sep 2000, wrote: : : > After cvsupping the ports collection yesterday and reinstalling : > XFree86-4 my mouse freezes (just hangs in the middle of the screen). : : I have a simliar problem if I'm in XFree86-4 with the mouse working fine, : and then switch to a console (ctrl-alt-Fx), and then back into X. The : mouse just hangs. I can re-get control of the mouse by restarting the : Xserver (in xdm, ctrl-alt-backspace). : : My mouse settings from /etc/X11/XF86Config: : : Section "InputDevice" : Identifier "Mouse0" : Driver "mouse" : Option "Protocol" "Auto" : Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" : EndSection : : My mouse is PS/2. A patch went into the XFree86-4 meta port that should fix this particular problem. It had been kicking around in the freebsd mailing lists for quite a while .. [ I (definitely not the author of the patch!!!!) finally remembered to pester the maintainer :)] S ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Sean O'Connell Email: sean@stat.Duke.EDU Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences Phone: (919) 684-5419 Duke University Fax: (919) 684-8594 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message