Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 16:04:57 +0200 From: Tomas =?iso-8859-1?b?U27kY2tlcnN0cvZt?= <Tomas.Snackerstrom@dis.uu.se> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Mouse problems Message-ID: <1094997897.41445789e9c31@webmail.uu.se>
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Hi My name is Tomas. I've recently installed FreeBSD and this is the first t= ime=20 ever that I install a UNIX system. I use Solaris at work but as said this= is=20 the first time for me as root. Everything worked fine and I now have my file/printserver up and running.= =20 However a while ago I decided to add a graphical environment for convenie= nce=20 and that is when I ran into trouble. My problem is that when I start X (Gnome or KDE) my PS/2 mouse goes banan= as.=20 Basically it moves in the inverse direction on both axises (up and right)= and=20 does not respont on movements down or left. (The pointer then ends down i= n the=20 bottom left corner.) Buttons seem to work. Here is what I know. I run BSD version 5.2.1, XFree86 and latest releases= of=20 Gnome/KDE. In the mousedeamon test program in found in the sysinstall pro= gram,=20 the mouse works properly. If I start X and then exit it, the mouse is sti= ll=20 activated and it works properly! This is the reason I thought it might be related to Gnome but I get the s= ame=20 behaviour after installing KDE. I then add a plug and pray compatible USB= =20 mouse from logitech and it acts identically. (Yes I've tried different PS= /2:s=20 aswell, 2,3 buttons with or without scroll.) According to documentation "auto" detection should work for all PS/2 mous= es.=20 XFree homepage states that the BSD mouse deamon should work fine. The XFr= ee=20 config says nothing that to me indicates problems.=20 As I understand You've terminated cooperation with XFree but I doubt that= a=20 change to Xorg will solve this particular problem. I have tried to find this problem on the web but failed, and now i really= dont=20 know where to go but to call you.=20 Please tell me that I am just a stupid user who forgot to do something re= ally=20 trivial. I really like BSD so far and am very impressed with it. I'm work= ing=20 on contributing and am already trying to convince all my friends. Thanx in advance Tomas
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