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Date:      Tue, 9 Jul 2002 21:18:26 +0200
From:      Martin =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=F6ller?= <moeller@bsdsi.com>
To:        Petre Bandac <g38@rdsbv.ro>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: mouse problems
Message-ID:  <20020709191826.GB9100@piranha.bsdsi.com>
In-Reply-To: <200207091912.g69JCLi10196@g38.rdsbv.ro>
References:  <200207091912.g69JCLi10196@g38.rdsbv.ro>

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On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 22:12:20 +0300, Petre Bandac wrote:
> I have a problem with the mouse in x-window on my fresh-installed 4.6 release
> box.
> 
> initially I have installed wmaker and all went okay, except for the mouse
> which started to click and move by itself ... just like a mouse with the
> wrong drivers on a winblows machine :-)
> 
> so I switched to enlightenment - and same problem ...
> 
> the mouse is ps2
> 
> and the error I get sometimes when I Ctr-Alt-Backspace to kill x-window is
> 
> (EE)Mouse1: Write to mouse failed.
> 
> 
> and in the console the mouse works ok .... that's what I dont understand ..
> 

I had the same problem so I disabled the console mouse in rc.conf and
used /dev/psm0 instead of /dev/sysmouse in XF86config.
You could give that a try!

Martin

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