Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 14:52:13 -0500 From: Caleb Land <bokonon@rochester.rr.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Mouse troubles in X and console (warning: contains graphic pleas for help :)) Message-ID: <20001114145213.A18827@deepthought.granfalloon.com>
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Hello, About three days ago I was using X, and my mouse froze in it's tracks. I know that X didn't freeze because I could still operate it with the keyboard. So, after I saved my work, I used CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE to halt X. Then I killed ``moused'' and ran it again. Then when I moved my mouse in the console tons of characters (a lot of dollar signs ($)) were being input on standard input (as if I were typing them, I received a lot of "command not found" errors). If I start X when it is acting like this my mouse goes crazy when I move it. It clicks everywhere, and jumps from one side of the screen to the other. When I reboot the machine everything is normal again until I start X and use it for a little while. Through much rebooting, I've determined that moving a window from one virtual desktop to another will get it to freeze more quickly, though other activity causes it too. I tried installing X from cvs, but that didn't fix anything. I tried cvsup'ing by adding: date=2000.11.01.01.01.01 and making a new kernel and world, but that didn't help (it worked until a couple of days ago, so I thought that a recent installworld might have caused it, but it still didn't work with the old sources) I've tried not running moused on boot, and just using the mouse in X with the type set to "PS/2" and the device set to "/dev/psm0" Here is some information about my system: * Dual PIII 500 on a Supermicro P6DGE * 256 MB of Memory (I added 128 last week, and that is when I recompiled my kernel because for some reason I have 128 MB of memory hardcoded in my kernel config.) * Intellimouse Explorer (the one with 5 buttons and a wheel) hooked up to the PS/2 port because the USB never worked with SMP for some reason. * First X 4.0.1 from the ports collection, then from CVS, same problem The mouse works fine in Windows, and worked fine since March 2000 when I installed FreeBSD 4.0 until now. If you need more specific information tell me how to get it and I will (maybe some sort of kernel log or something). I'm stumped. -- Sincerely, Caleb Land (bokonon@rochester.rr.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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