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Date:      Thu, 2 May 2002 08:12:45 -0400
From:      Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org>
To:        tornadox@telnor.net, "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: mouse code kernel
Message-ID:  <20020502121246.0A35BBB29@i8k.babbleon.org>
In-Reply-To: <0GVG00A9UVVBRZ@email.telnor.net>
References:  <0GVG00A9UVVBRZ@email.telnor.net>

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On Tuesday 30 April 2002 05:59 pm, jehova wrote:
| thanks for re:
| sorry for my english, i'm trying.
|
| when i draw a box (rectangle tool on gimp), if i do it quite
| slowly, i start my draw on place where i click and drag mouse
| pointer works fine. But if click and drag for draw a box faster
| my box is draw  away  from the place where it supose to be,
| something like one  inch (depends on speed: faster more
| desplaced, slower draw near. if i want select a text (for example
| for  cut and paste), slow or medium velocity works well, but if
| i speed up: start selection 2,3 4 or 6 characters later.
| this behavior happens with with TWM, KDE and XFCE and with
| every drawing program i've been tried (gimp, xpaint or whatever).
|
| i've been discard Xfree because versions 3.3.6, 4.1 and 4.2
| do same on freebsd 4.4 and 4.5. nothing of this happen on linux
| this is why i think maybe is a kernel related issue.

If you are running X anyway, then the simplest solution is probably just to 
bypass the kernel mouse code entirely.

Just change the mouse in your XF86Config from /dev/mouse to /dev/psm0 (for a 
PS/2 mouse, the most likely choice) or whatever your real underlying mouse 
device is and restart X.

Then you won't be using the the kernel-based "sysmouse" driver at all, just X 
mouse support.


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