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>
NetBSD: 23 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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