From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 25 15:26:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nebula.anchoragerescue.org (cable-115-7-237-24.anchorageak.net [24.237.7.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 813B737B423 for ; Fri, 25 May 2001 15:26:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from akbeech@anchoragerescue.org) Received: from galaxy.anchoragerescue.org (galaxy.anchoragerescue.org [24.237.7.95]) by nebula.anchoragerescue.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 64053160; Fri, 25 May 2001 14:26:05 -0800 (AKDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Beech Rintoul To: Goran Runfeldt , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Keyboard and mouse problems Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 14:26:04 -0800 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <20010526000926.A29443@home.se> In-Reply-To: <20010526000926.A29443@home.se> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01052514260400.00756@galaxy.anchoragerescue.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday 25 May 2001 14:09, Goran Runfeldt wrote: > I'm having some problems with my mouse in FreeBSD 4.3 > I have a "Logitech Cordless MouseMan" mouse. > When I use moused and configure X to use /dev/sysmouse with protocol > "SysMouse" the mouse behaves very strange. The left button gets pressed > whenever i move the mouse. > Here is my config: > > rc.conf: > moused_type="auto" (or "intellimouse", same problem with both) > moused_enable="YES" > moused_port="/dev/psm0" > > XF86Config: > Identifier "Mouse0" > Driver "mouse" > Option "Protocol" "SysMouse" > Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse" > Option "Buttons" "5" > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" > > I'm using XFree86-4.0.3_3 compiled with "WITH_MATROX_GXX_DRIVER". > My windowmanager is fvwm-2.3.32. > > I have tried to get around this but then I stumbled on another "bug". > If I turn off moused and configure X to use /dev/psm0 with protocol > "Auto" the mouse works fine (mostly, see below) in X. However, when I > am in textmode the keyboard sometimes just stops to function. > This happens randomly, and only when in textmode. > The console stays in this frozen mode for a random amount of time, > usually from 5 seconds to 5 minutes. I can login to the box via the > network and do 'vidcontrol -s 11 < /dev/ttyv0' which will switch me > back into X, if I then switch back to textmode everything works again. > I have NOT pressed Scroll Lock, the text-cursor is still there. > When the console gets back to normal the keypresses that I have made > don't show up. This _never_ happens when I have moused running, and > removing "-m" from allscreens_flags in rc.conf doesn't help either. > This happens both when I am running X in the "background" and when X > isn't running. My keyboard is a "Logitech Cordless Desktop Pro". > > Another thing, it happens quite often that I get this kernelmessage: > --- > /kernel: psmintr: out of sync (0000 != 0008). > last message repeated 125 times > --- > It usually happens directly on boot and continues until I reboot, then > I might have the same problem again or the problem might be gone. > When I use the mouse in X while these messages show up, with or without > moused, the mouse gets extremely sensitive and fly around from corner to > corner, clicking buttons randomly, in other words, it gets unusable. > Same thing with moused in console, the mousepointer just fly around the > screen, copying and pasting randomly. > > Please CC me when replying. > Goran Runfeldt I had the same problem. If you are using ps/2 switch it over to USB. There is a correct driver in USB for that setup. I was never able to get able to get the mouse working properly in ps/2. Check either GENERIC or LINT if USB isn't in your kernel. Beech ------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - IT Manager - Instructor - akbeech@anchoragerescue.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Anchorage Gospel Rescue Mission \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | P.O. Box 230510 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99523-0510 / \ ----------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message