Subject: Re: Mouse loses control
To: Sung N. Cho <sucho2@vt.edu>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 12/03/2002 23:07:30
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 04:53:27PM +0000, Sung N. Cho wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Looks like /dev/wsmouse works as well.  In any case, I turned off ps/2 
> mouse from the BIOS and have used /dev/wsmouse0 for my USB mouse.  I 
> have also detached the the USB mouse, enabled ps/2 mouse in BIOS and 
> used /dev/wsmouse0 as ps/2 mouse.  Now, I have turned off PS/2 mouse and 
> put /dev/wsmouse instead, and XFree86 correctly detects USB mouse as 
> usual.  But that was never a problem.  Problem was in the stability of 
> mouse actions.  At the moment, my custom kernel is compiled without ps/2 
> mouse support (only usb mouse enabled in kernel).  But, I still have 
> random mouse behavior while dragging or resiging windows.  Under 
> windows98, neither of these mouse have problem.  Not under Linux also. 
> I am not sure why I'm getting disturbances in mouse.  For example, when 
> I open mozilla mail and click on messages, it pops up several windows as 
> if I clicked it that many times.  This happens randomly quite often, of 
> course.  Or, when I delete a message, it sometimes deletes several 
> messages.  Thank you.

Do you also have these problem when using the regular PS/2 mouse ?

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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