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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: NEED HELP:  XFree86 3.1.1 and Mouse device
Date: 8 Sep 1995 13:56:37 +0200
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Brad Nelson <bnelson@ti.com> wrote:
>I have recompiled the FreeBSD 2.0.5 kernel to use my mouse which plugs into
>a PS/2 mouse port.  When I start X Windows my mouse pointer jumps to the top
>line of the screen at the slightest touch of the mouse and then it jumps
>around on the top line from left to right, even when I am moving the mouse
>up and down.

Looks like you've got the mouse protocol line in XF86Config wrong.
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cheers, J"org                      private:   joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
                                   http://www.sax.de/~joerg/

Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)