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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.kei.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!ai-lab!life.ai.mit.edu!mycroft From: mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Mouse problem...XFree86-1.3 on NetBSD 0.9 Date: 06 Oct 1993 10:22:34 GMT Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab Lines: 20 Message-ID: <MYCROFT.93Oct6062234@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> References: <5OCT93.04385139@tifrvax.tifr.res.in> NNTP-Posting-Host: duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu In-reply-to: bhiksha@tifrvax.tifr.res.in's message of Tue, 5 Oct 1993 04:38:51 GMT In article <5OCT93.04385139@tifrvax.tifr.res.in> bhiksha@tifrvax.tifr.res.in writes: When i use a logitech 3-button mouse, (with the default XConfig), i get very odd response: the cursor movements are staccatto and dont seem to correlate to the mouse motions very much. Also, the machine seems to be receiving a lot of button-clicks, even though i dont touch the buttons and the screen goes haywire. This is odd. These are symptoms of two things: * Using the wrong minor device number number. The mouse should have minor number 1, not 0. The MAKEDEV script gets this right. * There is a bug in XFree86 related to the boundary condition of negating -128, which causes large horizontal motions to cause spurious button clicks. This has been worked around in the NetBSD drivers. Are you using the ones supplied in the NetBSD distribution?