Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 20:24:57 -0800 (PST) From: Steve Austin <indydog125@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: still having mouse problems on FBSD 4.4 release Message-ID: <20011118042457.18116.qmail@web20408.mail.yahoo.com>
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I am going nuts. I seem to have my mouse running: before running a desktop (with startx) if I move the mouse around, the mouse pointer shows up (and moves around) on the text screen. When I run startx, and enter into the window manager (Gnome, Windowmaker, fvwm - I've tried all of these so I don't think it is a window manager problem) no mouse pointer shows up on the screen, yet I can move the mouse about and icons and windows will become highlighted. I can click on the icons and get movement, but the darn mouse pointer doesn't show up... It's sort of like trying to grab something that you can see, but you can't see your hand in relation to what you are grabbing. Frustrating. Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong? It's a ps/2 mouse, plugged into the ps/2 port. The /etc/XF86Config file has the pointer section set out as follows: Section "Pointer" Protocol "SysMouse" Device "/dev/sysmouse" ... root> ps -auwx | fgrep mouse root 260 0.0 0.2 900 508 ?? Is 9:08PM 0:00.23 moused -p /dev/psm0 -t auto I've even played with the setting in the /etc/rc.conf file and changed the moused_enable from "YES" to "NO" and back. I've mucked around with the moused and the settings in the XF86Config file quite a bit on the advice of someone posting a reply to my initial question, but it has not gone too well. I've brought up a window manager and killed the moused process, and then restarted it with other settings - and I don't get any further (mostly, I take steps back in the progress I've made with the current settings). It's not an old beater machine either - it's brand new. Any advise however far fetched would be appreciated. Thanks. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Find the one for you at Yahoo! Personals http://personals.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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