Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 12:35:33 -0400 From: "Sean O'Connell" <sean@stat.Duke.EDU> To: FreeBSD stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: mouse broken in X-4.0.1 (cvsup yesterday) Message-ID: <20000928123533.K61696@stat.Duke.EDU> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009281121320.58489-100000@palanthas.neverending.org>; from ftobin@uiuc.edu on Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 11:24:38AM -0500 References: <20000928115659.A27309@freebee.attica.home> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009281121320.58489-100000@palanthas.neverending.org>
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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
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