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Date:      Sun, 6 Oct 2002 02:03:32 -0500
From:      Nick Slager <zith@zith.net>
To:        Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Mouse jumping all over the place in X
Message-ID:  <20021006020332.A69098@zith.net>
In-Reply-To: <006501c26d02$47f64800$6501a8c0@VAIO650>; from shamrock@cypherpunks.to on Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 11:33:25PM -0700
References:  <006501c26d02$47f64800$6501a8c0@VAIO650>

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Thus spake Lucky Green (shamrock@cypherpunks.to):

> I just bought a Memorex MX4200 PS/2 optical mouse. When attempting to
> use X with the new mouse, the pointer jumps all over the place upon the
> slightest movement of the mouse.
> 
> The relevant entry of XF86config follows:
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier  "Mouse0"
>         Driver      "mouse"
>         Option      "Protocol" "MouseSystems"
>         Option      "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
> EndSection

MouseSystems is almost certainly not the correct protocol.

Try changing it to "auto" or "PS/2".


Nick

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