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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!psgrain!quack!quack.kfu.com!nsayer From: nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer) Subject: Re: 2.1.5 psm0 trouble Message-ID: <nye5Zfx@quack.kfu.com> Sender: news@quack.kfu.com (0000-News(0000)) Supersedes: <nyduxho@quack.kfu.com> Organization: The Duck Pond public unix, +1 408 249 9630, log in as guest. References: <nyduxho@quack.kfu.com> Date: Sun, 1 Sep 1996 05:59:02 UTC Lines: 41 nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer) writes: >This is an odd one. >I have only tried this under X, so I am not yet sure if it's a driver >issue or an XFree issue. >I have a MouseSystems 3 button PS/2 mouse. Works fine under win95. >Under XFree, if I roll the mouse down or left, the mouse pointer will >jump all the way to the screen edge. Moving up or right works fine. >All three buttons work just fine (according to xev). The machine is >a Triton motherboard running FreeBSD 2.1.5 stock with a P120. >Anyone heard of this one? >/dev/mouse is a symlink to /dev/psm0, psm0 probes just fine according >to dmesg, no other symptoms are visible. The XF86Config file is as >correct as I know how to make it for an ordinary PS/2 mouse. >(device is /dev/mouse, protocol is PS/2, the rest is commented >out). This same behavior is noticed if I plug this mouse into my laptop, which is running 2.2-960501-SNAP. Moving the mouse the slightest bit left or down causes it to jump ~512 (guessing a bit - it goes a little less than half way across a 1152 wide screen) pixels in the left or down direction. I wrote a small test program that reads /dev/psm0. The events I see don't look substantially different than they do on my laptop's built-in mouse (which works just fine). This is a really nice mouse. All the other PS/2 mice in the store had two buttons. I really hate chordmiddle and would really rather have a real 3 button mouse. It would be a trajedy if I had to waste a serial port to do it. -- Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com> | I am Pentium of Borg. N6QQQ @ N0ARY.#NORCAL.CA.USA.NOAM | You will be approximated. +1 408 249 9630, log in as 'guest' | URL: http://www.kfu.com/~nsayer/ | -- The Usenet Oracle