Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 14:07:18 -0700 From: John Merryweather Cooper <jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net> To: "Hartmann, O." <ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange mouse bahviour in FBSD 4.3 and XFree86 4.1.0 Message-ID: <20010620140718.G14541@johncoop> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0106202235560.24546-100000@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de>; from ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de on Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 13:58:49 -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0106202235560.24546-100000@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de>
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On 2001.06.20 13:58 "Hartmann, O." wrote: > Dear Sirs. > > I posted here several postings about a problem with one of our > FBSD 4.3-STABLE boxes. This machine has been cvsupdated today, > XFRee864.1.0_4 has been installed several days ago (by a fresh > compilation). > > One of the earlier problems is the following: > > I can not shutdown this machine by being remotely loged in > using shutdown -r now. I always have to use shutdown -r -o now > to do the task. On all other maschines that works! > > The machine I speak about is a AMD K7 800 MHz based on ASUS A7V > PCB and IBM DTLA 307030. The videoadaptor is a ELSA Erazor III Pro. > See the following dmesg-output . > > The new problem is hard to describe. It seems one way like a hardware > fault, but another way the fault of some FBSD subsystems. > > Description: > > Using /dev/sysmouse and moused as the basic mouse system, we have a > Logitech optical USB port mouse attached to this machine. The USB > mouse is connected to a HUB located at a Iiyama 18 inch LCD screen > (bit that doesn't matter, I tried the USB port directly or a PS/2 > mouse with the same effect). > On the X11 screen, the mouse rushes uncontrollable over the screen, > jumping, shivers around, not reacting on pressed buttons. It looks > like having used the wrong protocol with earlier XFree types. But there > is no misconfiguration, this configuration worked since approximately I > switched over to XFree86 4.1.0 and/or did a cvsupdate. > When leaving the X-session, Xserver drops a core, reporting something > about an > illegal instruction after resetting the mouese! > When in terminal mode (no X), the mouse shivers and jumps also > uncontroleable > on the screen. I exchanged the mouese with a simple PS/2 mouse and > sometimes > I have a pointer, sometimes not (using sysmouse/moused). In X11 the > phenomenon > of a jumping and rushing mouse is not as obvious as with the USB type, > but it > is also faulty. The mouse disappears or is unuseable. The kernel reports > a mouse > at psm0, but in X (chooser) there is no access/movement of it. Sometimes, > while > having luck moving it around, it seems to drop spontanously "button > presses" > around. > > This machine is without graphical device or mouse accessible and works > perfect. > I can use it remotely without problems. It seems really to be related to > something > like sysmouse/moused/mouse/XFree86 or FreeBSD's driver for the mouse > system. > > Does anyone heared about such strange things due a bug of FreeBSD/XFree86 > 4.1.0? > If not, this really seems to be a massive hardware related problem. > > On the other hand: > > We have a lot of self-made X11 Terminals around here for our students, > based > on a DFI AK74EC main PCB, Duron 700, Gigabyte GA660+ video board, using > Logitech > 3 button PS/2 mice. They are cvsupdated 7 days ago, XFree86 4.1.0 has > been build > several days ago. These diskless booting terminals do not show any kind > of disruption > of mouse access or movement ... > -- > MfG > O. Hartmann > > ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > IT-Administration des Institut fuer Physik der Atmosphaere (IPA) > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz > Becherweg 21 > 55099 Mainz > > Tel: +496131/3924662 (Maschinensaal) > Tel: +496131/3924144 > FAX: +496131/3923532 > > I have had similar, but less severe, experiences recently with my mouse--a Logitech MouseMan+. I don't get the illegal instruction error as above (but this maybe because I use "startx" and OH uses "xdm"?) But the erratic mouse cursor and the dropping of random clicks makes XFree86-4 operation somewhat more painful than I'd like at the moment. My configuration: Adapter: Diamond Mutlimedia Viper 770 Ultra (nVidia TNT2 Ultra with 32 megs) Mouse: Logitech MouseMan+ connected to PS/2 port jmc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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