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Date:      Sun, 29 Feb 2004 11:04:30 -0700
From:      "Jerry M. Howell II" <jmhowell@jmhowell.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ps2 optical wheel mouse problems
Message-ID:  <20040229110430.C32005@jmhowell.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040229175550.GB42000@alex.lan>; from freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl on Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 06:55:50PM %2B0100
References:  <20040229093926.A32005@jmhowell.com> <20040229175550.GB42000@alex.lan>

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On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 06:55:50PM +0100, Alex de Kruijff wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 09:39:26AM -0700, Jerry M. Howell II wrote:
> > Hello all.,
> > 
> >   I recently installed freeBSD 5.2 and have a problem. I have most
> >   everything working corectly except the mouse. I set it to auto and it
> >   detects the mouse but it jumps all over the screen. It's a prety
> >   standard optical wheel mouse that seems to work fine under 4.8 and
> >   under all distros of linux I've used so far. I've tried every
> >   configuration I can think of under the sun. Does anyone have any
> >   recomendations?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> There are two main ways of setting up the mouse. The first is to go only
> with the X config and the second is to rely on the consile setup. If you
> didn't use the second option, then please read the FAQ on the website.
> Could you please tell use wich option you used? It would also be a handy
> to have the configuration files or those parts there of that are
> relevant.
> 
First I used /stand/sysinstall and selected the auto selecton. It
detected the mouse but started jumping. After that I decided to select
auto from the xf86config script, when that didn't work I tried sysmouse
but got no beter response. One thing I did notice one thing. If I hook
up a normal ps2 mouse and enable the mouse it works fine, even when I
swap out the normal mouse for the optical but when I reboot if I have
the optical mouse atached it goes back to jumping around. Realy weard.

-- 
Jerry M. Howell II



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