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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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