Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 20:24:50 +0200 From: Guilmot Mike <mike.guilmot@pandora.be> To: "Dragoncrest" <dragoncrest@voyager.net>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange Mouse issue Message-ID: <200309052024.50370.mike.guilmot@pandora.be> In-Reply-To: <200309051818.h85IINFx083245@mail5.mx.voyager.net> References: <200309051818.h85IINFx083245@mail5.mx.voyager.net>
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On Friday 05 September 2003 20:18, Dragoncrest wrote: > Recently I had my BSD install go totally down in flames with a smashing > finale where it exploded into a billion pieces and wafted off into > oblivion. (blame the hardware, not me.) Anywho, I've since resurrected > the box but with one strange little quirk. The mouse freaks out like a > cat on crack. Any movement causes it to jump to the upper left corner, > go absolutely apesh** and do some totally weird things like false right > and left clicks even if all I'm doing is moving the mouse. Reboot > didn't resolve the issue (had to reboot anyways as part of a kernel > rebuild) so I am assuming it's not a hardware issue. The mouse works > fine in the console, but it absolutely will not work under X. Any > ideas? I've even rebuilt my X config several times. Is this in XFree86 while moused is still running ? If yes, try killing moused. This helped for me. The mouse ran just fine afterwards. Kind regards, Guilmot Mike
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