From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 5 23:58:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A6C237B401 for ; Sat, 5 Oct 2002 23:58:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail102.csoft.net (lilly.csoft.net [63.111.22.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 80CD143E3B for ; Sat, 5 Oct 2002 23:58:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from zith@lilly.csoft.net) Received: (qmail 69539 invoked by uid 1876); 6 Oct 2002 07:03:32 -0000 Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 02:03:32 -0500 From: Nick Slager To: Lucky Green Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mouse jumping all over the place in X Message-ID: <20021006020332.A69098@zith.net> References: <006501c26d02$47f64800$6501a8c0@VAIO650> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <006501c26d02$47f64800$6501a8c0@VAIO650>; from shamrock@cypherpunks.to on Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 11:33:25PM -0700 X-Homer: Whoohooooooo! 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 Thus spake Lucky Green (shamrock@cypherpunks.to): > I just bought a Memorex MX4200 PS/2 optical mouse. When attempting to > use X with the new mouse, the pointer jumps all over the place upon the > slightest movement of the mouse. > > The relevant entry of XF86config follows: > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Mouse0" > Driver "mouse" > Option "Protocol" "MouseSystems" > Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse" > EndSection MouseSystems is almost certainly not the correct protocol. Try changing it to "auto" or "PS/2". Nick -- "We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty." -- Douglas Adams To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message