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Date:      Mon, 12 Mar 2001 04:53:03 -0600 (CST)
From:      Nate Dannenberg <natedac@kscable.com>
To:        <freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org>
Subject:   mouse driver in 4.3-beta/4.2-stable
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.33.0103120430290.914-100000@piccolo.daconcepts.dyndns.org>

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Ever since I installed this box, which was a few days ago, I've had
trouble with the mouse driver.  If I hold down the Shift, Control, or ALT
keys while I move the mouse around in the console, it will cause the mouse
driver to simply stop working.  The pointer will disappear, and further
attempts to get the mouse working fail.

I have CVSup'ed to 4.3-beta as of about 3 hours ago, and the problem still
exists.

The machine in question now, is an IBM Aptiva.  550 Mhz Athlon, 96M ram,
20GB hard drive, Number 9 SR9 video with 8M, ESS Solo-1 for the sound,
and a Netgear FA311 10/100 NIC.

The mouse is a Fellowes 3-button device with scrolling wheel (Button-2
events are triggered by pushing the wheel down into the mouse.  I don't
know what events the rolling motion of the wheel generates).

On talking to another user, a similar problem occurs for him, to the
extent that the mouse pointer continues to move around, but he can no
longer highlight/select text for the cut&paste operation once the bug
strikes.

For me, the mouse pointer disappears entirely, for good.  I have to
restart my machine (see the other bug, below) to recover mouse operation.

Also, On a related note, killall -HUP moused will cause the mouse to go
completely bonkers, inserting junk into the console when I move it around.

I've experienced this problem since somewhere around 4.1-Release, and it
has occurred on three completely different boxes, with three different
mice (all are PS/2 mice).

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