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Subject: Re: psm driver installed but sooooooo slow ...
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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Date: 1 Mar 1994 17:52:35 GMT
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In article <2kt3cj$o52@pilhuhn.pilhuhn.sub.org>,
Patrick M.Hausen <pmh@pilhuhn.sub.org> wrote:
>Hi!
>
>I finally got the psm driver installed into FreeBSD and it seems to work.
>At least the mouse is recognized at boot time, but ...
>
>When running X, the mouse is unusable. I'm used to some bad response to
>user actions with X, when the system is under heavy load but my system
>is idle and the cursor doesn't move at all but jumps in units of a
>quarter of the screen aproximately.

I'll bet you aren't using the new select setting of the mouse.   Look
at the source code for NEW_SELECT or something like that and make
sure it's defined and recompile your kernel.


Nate
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