Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 08:34:42 -0500 (EST) From: Jaime <jaime@snowmoon.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Mouse use freezes OS Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102050822460.44680-100000@malkav.snowmoon.com>
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This is a weird one. First some background. My old 5GB hard drive died, so I replaced it with a new 45GB hard drive. My OS and data was on a 13GB hard drive anyway (the 5GB was an old OS installation and some backups) so there wasn't really any actual data loss. Then I discovered that the new HD was too big for my mother board. I flashed the BIOS and it began to work. I booted, used tar -cpf - -C /old-stuff . | tar -xpf - -C /new-stuff in order to transfer the files to the new drive. This seems to have worked, since the computer was able to boot from my new hard drive. Then I had issues with ed0 giving timeouts. I set the BIOS to treat IRQ 10 as a legacy ISA device (instead of a PCI/ISA PnP device) and it worked again. I thought that all was happy, but it wasn't. When I tried to use my trackball (COM1, mousesystems, XF86 controls it not moused) nothing happened. At xdm, no motion of the pointer occured. I tried using /stand/sysinstall to configure the mouse daemon, just to see what was going on. I set the protocol and port and hit "Enable". Nothing happened: no pointer movement or even a pointer. I tried a few other protocols, just in case, but nothing ever improved. Finally, a pointer showed up, but then the system completely locked. I couldn't cancel sysinstall with a Control-C, I couldn't switch virtual terminals, and I couldn't see the NetATalk file sharing to Macs from the Chooser on my Mac. Since then I have tried many combinations of settings in sysinstall's moused configuration screen and in XF86's graphical configuration screen. I have never gotten the pointer to move at all. I have never gotten the buttons to work. After a small number of tries (3-8 different configs) the OS always locks up without so much as a panic warning. Any thoughts? TIA, Jaime To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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