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Date:      Sun, 21 Dec 2003 11:11:49 +0100
From:      "Odd Rune Strømmen" <oddrune@anipsyche.net>
To:        "Alain Fabry" <alainfabry@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Mouse problems in XFree86
Message-ID:  <000b01c3c7aa$dad97d00$6403c80a@stine>
References:  <Sea2-F25wEYbqRx3C1r00083b36@hotmail.com>

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>    All,
>
>    I've installed FreeBSD 4.7-Release, everything is fine. When
>    configuring the mouse deamon with /stand/sysinstall, the mouse works
>    correctly. Configuration of XFree86 server works fine aswell.
>
>    When I load my KDE wm with startx (or with KDM), I have a problem with
>    my mouse. Whenever I move the mouse, it goes back to the upper left
>    corner of my screen - which makes the mouse useless and makes it also
>    impossible to run KDE. I've already tried with other window managers
>    (GNOME) but the same problem happens.
>
>    Plain old serial mouse connected to com1.
>
>    What do I need to do to solve this problem?
>
>    Thanks in advance.
>
>
>    Alain
>      _________________________________________________________________



Try to set the "mouse type" option in your XF86Config file to "Auto".
That should do the trick.

--
Odd Rune Strømmen



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