Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 06:12:56 -0500 From: "Anthony M. Agelastos" <iqgrande@gmail.com> To: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: moused hanging Message-ID: <CC5F1577-8C43-4FBD-A9C8-B502267599B9@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4464pu7401.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <8a6250b20512110733v55ecd95dn27a6138ab1db59b5@mail.gmail.com> <4464pu7401.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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On Dec 12, 2005, at 10:02 AM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Anthony Agelastos <iqgrande@gmail.com> writes: > >> Hello everyone, >> >> For an unknown reason, my mouse lately has been hanging. It has >> hung with >> X11 running and without X11 running. To fix it, I get to a prompt >> (usually >> via Ctrl+Alt+F1 as it tends to happen primarily when in X) and, as >> root, I >> execute >> >> % kill mousedPID >> % moused -p /dev/psm0 >> % vidcontrol -m on >> >> and, if there is music playing, it slurs for several seconds when I >> initially move the mouse, and then it is back to working along >> with the >> mouse. If memory serves, this problem started occurring when I >> configured >> the mouse to use the scrollwheel. To do this, I followed the >> instructions >> per the FreeBSD FAQ. >> >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/x.html#X-AND- >> WHEEL >> >> What the FAQ mentions is only related to X11. It has failed on me >> once when >> I booted up FBSD prior to any startx-type of command being run. I >> have been >> running the same version of 6.0-STABLE for over a month now and >> this problem >> has started noticeably occurring a couple of weeks ago. Does >> anyone have any >> ideas? Some additional pertinent information is below. Thank you >> to everyone >> who helps and has helped make FreeBSD a great community. > > It sounds like it might be an interrupt issue. > Is the mouse sharing an interrupt with anything? How could I check that? I do apologize for my ignorance with this. > >>> uname -a >> FreeBSD ast.home.iq 6.0-STABLE FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE #0: Sat Nov 5 >> 21:29:34 >> EST 2005 root@ast.home.iq:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/IQKERNEL i386 >>> moused -p /dev/psm0 -i type >> sysmouse >>> cat /etc/rc.conf | grep moused >> moused_enable="YES" >> moused_type='auto' >> moused_port='/dev/psm0' >> >> I wanted to mention here that when I change moused_type from auto >> to ps/2, >> it appears to behave more stable. However, in doing this, the >> scrollwheel >> ceases to work in X11. I wanted to also mention that I checked out >> the FAQ, >> Google, and the Handbook and came up empty with all of them . > > I'm not surprised; I don't think I've heard of this behaviour before. Prior to your email, I decided to update my 6.0-STABLE box to a newer version of 6.0-STABLE and, so far anyways, it seems to have fixed the problem. Thank you for your reply. I would still like to know the question I asked above regarding the interrupts if at all possible.
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