Re: PS/2 Mouse problem

[Ted U <grendel@heorot.stanford.edu>]

On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, J. Scott Edwards wrote:

> I don't think it's hardware.  I tried 2 different mice and they both
> behaved the same and if I run wsmoused the mouse seems to work fine on
> the console.

missed the original post, see below.

> > >XFree86 3.x seems to run fine but the mouse is completely wacky.  If I
> > >just touch the mouse the cursor goes flying all over the place and it
> > >behaves like I'm wildly pressing the buttons.  In the XF86Config file it
> > >has Protocol = PS/2 and Device = /dev/wsmouse.

You're supposed to use protocol wsmouse.  Or kill wsmoused, and use
/dev/pms.  You'll need to use Xfree 4 that came with OpenBSD for this to
work I think.

refer:
http://www.xfree86.org/current/mouse.html
The page is out of date, combine the info for netbsd and openbsd.



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