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Date:      Fri, 20 Sep 2002 10:12:41 +0400
From:      "Denis N. Peplin" <info@volginfo.ru>
To:        Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: IRQ problems
Message-ID:  <200209201012.41273.info@volginfo.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20020919214200.GA94021@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi>
References:  <1032462353.3d8a20115d6a2@webmail.xmission.com> <20020919214200.GA94021@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi>

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On Friday 20 September 2002 01:42, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 01:05:53PM -0600, randallS@xmission.com wrote:
> > The KDE desktop initializes and displays fine, but the mouse jitters and
> > jerks and stays in the upper left hand corner of the screen.  It responds
> > to input, (when I move the mouse it jerks out of the corner then back in,
> > and I cannot control it.  For now I wouldn't mind not using the mouse,
> > but I don't know how to make the pointer move without it in KDE (is there
> > virtual mouse utility like in X?).
>
> Sounds like you aren't using quite the right mouse type.  If you let
> the X server determine the mouse type automatically, it usually does a
> pretty good job.  If you're running moused(8) -- ie you have:
>
>     moused_enable="YES"
>
> in /etc/rc.conf -- then something like this in the XF86Config file
> should work well:
>
>     Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier  "Mouse0"
>         Driver      "mouse"
>         Option      "Protocol" "auto"
>         Option      "Device" "/dev/mouse"
>     EndSection
or try this:
in rc.conf
moused_enable="NO"
then
# killall moused

in XF86Config
     Section "InputDevice"
         Identifier  "Mouse0"
         Driver      "mouse"
         Option      "Protocol" "auto"
         Option      "Device" "/dev/psm0"
     EndSection
(/dev/psm0 for ps/2 mouse)

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