Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 15:26:39 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz> To: Thomas Widlundh <tw@ettnet.se> Cc: freeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: XF86Config - mouse Message-ID: <20020627132639.GB66045@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> In-Reply-To: <000001c21dcd$040590d0$31056dd4@chappe2> References: <000001c21dcd$040590d0$31056dd4@chappe2>
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> From: "Thomas Widlundh" <tw@ettnet.se> > To: "freeBSD" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > Subject: XF86Config - mouse > Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 13:22:14 +0200 > > Hi , > I have had a very troublesome time to get X to work (4.1.0) > At last I got X to start with Kde (2.1.1.) and all looked smooth. > But my mouse went crazy and the pointer put itself at the edge of the > screen, completely > unusable. When I touch the mouse, the only thing that happens is a > popping up menu trembling like > crazy. > > My mouse is a two button and one wheel PS/2. Just a plain ordinary > mouse. > The appropiate sections of my XF86Config look like this: > > Section "ServerLayout" > Identifier "XFree86 Configured" > Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 > InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" > InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" > EndSection > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Mouse0" > Driver "mouse" > Option "Protocol" "PS/2" > Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" > EndSection I'm no expert, but this has always worked for me: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "auto" Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse" Option "Buttons" "5" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection /dev/mouse is a symlink to /dev/sysmouse, so that should be fine. but I remember having all kinds of trouble (read: erratic mouse behavior) with anything other than "auto" for the "Protocol" option. -- FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE 3:24PM up 3 days, 12:24, 8 users, load averages: 0.01, 0.05, 0.01 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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