This has been answered a view times over on this list when XFree-4.0.1
first came out.
The fix/workaround is to tweak your XF86Config file. For me, changing
Option "Protocol" from "Auto" to "Mousesystems" worked.
Ben Pfountz wrote:
>
> I have noticed the same thing in 4.1-RELEASE. I dont have a clue why it
> does that. When I killed moused and ran it again, everything worked fine.
> I never saw the raw input from the mouse on the terminal. I know I'm not
> much help, but perhaps someone else knows whats going on?
>
> Caleb Land wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> > About three days ago I was using X, and my mouse froze in it's
> > tracks. I know that X didn't freeze because I could still operate it
> > with the keyboard. So, after I saved my work, I used
> > CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE to halt X. Then I killed ``moused'' and ran it
> > again. Then when I moved my mouse in the console tons of characters
> > (a lot of dollar signs ($)) were being input on standard input (as if
> > I were typing them, I received a lot of "command not found" errors).
> > If I start X when it is acting like this my mouse goes crazy when I
> > move it. It clicks everywhere, and jumps from one side of the screen
> > to the other.
> > When I reboot the machine everything is normal again until I
> > start X and use it for a little while. Through much rebooting, I've
> > determined that moving a window from one virtual desktop to another
> > will get it to freeze more quickly, though other activity causes it
> > too. I tried installing X from cvs, but that didn't fix anything.
> > I tried cvsup'ing by adding:
> >
> > date=2000.11.01.01.01.01
> >
> > and making a new kernel and world, but that didn't help (it worked
> > until a couple of days ago, so I thought that a recent installworld
> > might have caused it, but it still didn't work with the old sources)
> >
> > I've tried not running moused on boot, and just using the
> > mouse in X with the type set to "PS/2" and the device set to
> > "/dev/psm0"
> >
> > Here is some information about my system:
> > * Dual PIII 500 on a Supermicro P6DGE
> >
> > * 256 MB of Memory (I added 128 last week, and that is when I
> > recompiled my kernel because for some reason I have 128 MB of memory
> > hardcoded in my kernel config.)
> >
> > * Intellimouse Explorer (the one with 5 buttons and a wheel) hooked up
> > to the PS/2 port because the USB never worked with SMP for some reason.
> >
> > * First X 4.0.1 from the ports collection, then from CVS, same problem
> >
> > The mouse works fine in Windows, and worked fine since March 2000 when
> > I installed FreeBSD 4.0 until now.
> >
> > If you need more specific information tell me how to get it
> > and I will (maybe some sort of kernel log or something). I'm stumped.
> >
> > --
> > Sincerely,
> > Caleb Land
> > ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> >
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> Ben Pfountz
> Computer Science Undergraduate
> Virginia Tech
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