Screwy mouse trouble

[Alex Cavnar, aka alc6379]

Okay... I had seen this posted in other areas, but none of the answers were BSD specific...

I have a ps/2 mouse running on X 4.1.0 on FreeBSD 4.5. Every time I run X, the mouse jumps to the corner of the screen and doesn't respond to any input.

Right now, my XF86Config file has the mouse protocol listed as PS2 and the device as /dev/sysmouse. I have moused running (isn't that what the console mouse daemon is called?), and I'd like to keep it. How can I resolve this problem?

[jaygee432]

Try running XF86Setup or xf86config to see if you can find a protocol that works. I had to use the latter. I have a ps/2 3 button mouse, but it works with the mouseman protocol and /dev/sysmouse. I said n to both of the 3 button options, but I still have some functionality with the scroll button. Also, it seems to work better if you spell out /dev/sysmouse rather than pushing enter for the default link to /dev/mouse.

[Alex Cavnar, aka alc6379]

Hm... I didn't use the mouseman protocol. I just used PS2. Also, I manually entered my config in /etc/X11/XF86config. I used both /dev/mouse and /dev/sysmouse (/dev/mouse is just a symlink to /dev/sysymouse, anyways). I think it has something to do with the moused daemon. I might just try disabling that...

[Alex Cavnar, aka alc6379]

Okay... I fixed it. Here's how I resolved it:

I ended up turning off moused on the console, though I'm not sure that was neccesary. In my XF86config file, I changed my Core Pointer's "Device" entry to /dev/psm0, which I guess is the equivalent to /dev/psaux under Linux. Now, it works great!