On Dec 12, 2005, at 10:02 AM, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
Anthony Agelastos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hello everyone,
For an unknown reason, my mouse lately has been hanging. It has
hung with
X11 running and without X11 running. To fix it, I get to a prompt
(usually
via Ctrl+Alt+F1 as it tends to happen primarily when in X) and, as
root, I
execute
% kill mousedPID
% moused -p /dev/psm0
% vidcontrol -m on
and, if there is music playing, it slurs for several seconds when I
initially move the mouse, and then it is back to working along
with the
mouse. If memory serves, this problem started occurring when I
configured
the mouse to use the scrollwheel. To do this, I followed the
instructions
per the FreeBSD FAQ.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/x.html#X-AND-
WHEEL
What the FAQ mentions is only related to X11. It has failed on me
once when
I booted up FBSD prior to any startx-type of command being run. I
have been
running the same version of 6.0-STABLE for over a month now and
this problem
has started noticeably occurring a couple of weeks ago. Does
anyone have any
ideas? Some additional pertinent information is below. Thank you
to everyone
who helps and has helped make FreeBSD a great community.
It sounds like it might be an interrupt issue.
Is the mouse sharing an interrupt with anything?
How could I check that? I do apologize for my ignorance with this.
uname -a
FreeBSD ast.home.iq 6.0-STABLE FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE #0: Sat Nov 5
21:29:34
EST 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/IQKERNEL i386
moused -p /dev/psm0 -i type
sysmouse
cat /etc/rc.conf | grep moused
moused_enable="YES"
moused_type='auto'
moused_port='/dev/psm0'
I wanted to mention here that when I change moused_type from auto
to ps/2,
it appears to behave more stable. However, in doing this, the
scrollwheel
ceases to work in X11. I wanted to also mention that I checked out
the FAQ,
Google, and the Handbook and came up empty with all of them .
I'm not surprised; I don't think I've heard of this behaviour before.
Prior to your email, I decided to update my 6.0-STABLE box to a newer
version of 6.0-STABLE and, so far anyways, it seems to have fixed the
problem. Thank you for your reply. I would still like to know the
question I asked above regarding the interrupts if at all possible.
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