Subject: Re: Mouse loses control
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: Sung N. Cho <sucho2@vt.edu>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 12/03/2002 17:36:54
Manuel Bouyer wrote:

>On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 05:28:43PM +0000, Sung N. Cho wrote:
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>>Hello, Manuel.
>>
>>No, it seems PS/2 mouse works fine under NetBSD but only my USB mouse 
>>have that problem.  I just recompiled kernel with both PS/2 and USB 
>>mouse support and wsmux off.  To select PS/2 mouse, I just choose 
>>/dev/wsmouse0 in XF86Config and to select USB mouse, I set /dev/wsmouse1 
>>in XF86Config.  PS/2 mouse is very stable and solid.  But USB mouse has 
>>that random instability of dragging, etc.  I don't think it's broken 
>>since it works solid in both Linux and Windows98.
>>
>>I would hope to use USB mouse since that's an optical one, therefore, 
>>don't have to clean the wheels etc. :(
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>Well, this looks like a bug in the USB driver, but I don't know much about
>that part. Maybe you should submit a PR.
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>>Does having wsmux in kernel 
>>selectively choose USB mouse over PS/2 mouse when both are enabled in 
>>kernel? Thank you.
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>with wsmux, enents from both mouses are mixed, so you can use either
>the PS/2 or the USB mouse.
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Thank you very much.

Yours sincerely,
S. N. Cho,
Tuesday, Dec. 03, 2002.