Re: PS/2 Mouse problem

["J. Scott Edwards" <sedwards@xmission.com>]

I killed wsmoused before running X windows.  I just ran it to test the
mouse and see if it worked.

Thanks
  -Scott


On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Ted U wrote:

> 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 The page is out of date, combine the info for netbsd and openbsd.
>
>
>
> --
> Ted, toll collector of the information superhighway