Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 18:32:39 -0500 From: Ben Pfountz <netprince@vt.edu> To: Caleb Land <bokonon@rochester.rr.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mouse troubles in X and console (warning: contains graphic pleas forhelp :)) Message-ID: <3A11CB97.288AE77C@vt.edu> References: <20001114145213.A18827@deepthought.granfalloon.com>
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I have noticed the same thing in 4.1-RELEASE. I dont have a clue why it does that. When I killed moused and ran it again, everything worked fine. I never saw the raw input from the mouse on the terminal. I know I'm not much help, but perhaps someone else knows whats going on? Caleb Land wrote: > 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 -- Ben Pfountz Computer Science Undergraduate Virginia Tech netprince@vt.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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