Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 17:16:14 -0500 From: Snowfox <snowfox@snowfox.net> To: Jean-Sebastien ROY <jean-sebastien.roy@wanadoo.fr> Cc: Thierry Thomas <thierry@thomas.as>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Erratic PS/2 mouse with FreeBSD 4.1 Message-ID: <20001025171614.A17129@snowfox.net> In-Reply-To: <p04330101b618031a6704@[192.168.0.2]>; from jean-sebastien.roy@wanadoo.fr on Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 04:53:00AM %2B0200 References: <39F23308.32378.13C4C0@localhost> <p04330101b618031a6704@[192.168.0.2]>
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On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 04:53:00AM +0200, Jean-Sebastien ROY wrote: > >The mouse is a PS/2 "Browser Mouse", with 2 buttons and a wheel. > >It's seen as a model 4DT. > > > >And its mouvement is erratic. When the mouse is in motion, the > >cursor often jumps upward and to the right. Sometimes the software > >(X) reacts as if one of the buttons has been pressed. > > Same mouse... same problem (with FreeBSD 4.1.1) > > I do not remember well what I did (I do not use this mouse anymore), but doing the following solved the problem (until the next reboot) : > > 1-kill moused > 2-unplug the mouse > 3-plug the mouse again > 4-restart moused > > A better solution would be welcome... Rolling the mouse wheel forward and back a few times seems to clear this up. If this is happening to you often, you should look for something misconfigured in your system. I've typically had this problem when something is causing me to miss serial interrupts. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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