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Date:      Sun, 11 Dec 2005 10:33:57 -0500
From:      Anthony Agelastos <iqgrande@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   moused hanging
Message-ID:  <8a6250b20512110733v55ecd95dn27a6138ab1db59b5@mail.gmail.com>

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Hello everyone,

For an unknown reason, my mouse lately has been hanging. It has hung with
X11 running and without X11 running. To fix it, I get to a prompt (usually
via Ctrl+Alt+F1 as it tends to happen primarily when in X) and, as root, I
execute

% kill mousedPID
% moused -p /dev/psm0
% vidcontrol -m on

and, if there is music playing, it slurs for several seconds when I
initially move the mouse, and then it is back to working along with the
mouse. If memory serves, this problem started occurring when I configured
the mouse to use the scrollwheel. To do this, I followed the instructions
per the FreeBSD FAQ.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/x.html#X-AND-WHEEL

What the FAQ mentions is only related to X11. It has failed on me once when
I booted up FBSD prior to any startx-type of command being run. I have been
running the same version of 6.0-STABLE for over a month now and this proble=
m
has started noticeably occurring a couple of weeks ago. Does anyone have an=
y
ideas? Some additional pertinent information is below. Thank you to everyon=
e
who helps and has helped make FreeBSD a great community.

> uname -a
FreeBSD ast.home.iq 6.0-STABLE FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE #0: Sat Nov  5 21:29:34
EST 2005     root@ast.home.iq:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/IQKERNEL  i386
> moused -p /dev/psm0 -i type
sysmouse
> cat /etc/rc.conf | grep moused
moused_enable=3D"YES"
moused_type=3D'auto'
moused_port=3D'/dev/psm0'

I wanted to mention here that when I change moused_type from auto to ps/2,
it appears to behave more stable. However, in doing this, the scrollwheel
ceases to work in X11. I wanted to also mention that I checked out the FAQ,
Google, and the Handbook and came up empty with all of them .



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