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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.erols.net!feed1.news.erols.com!news.dra.com!news.he.net!nobel.pacific.net.sg!raffles.technet.sg!news-jp-0.abone.net!np0.iij.ad.jp!nf0.iij.ad.jp!news.iij.ad.jp!news.yamabiko.or.jp!news.sra-tohoku.co.jp!gatortia!sakunami!wapiko!fukagawa!wnoc-tyo-news!news.nc.u-tokyo.ac.jp!train.ad.jp!iroha.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp!nikko.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp!yokota From: yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp. (Kazutaka YOKOTA) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 2.2-ALPHA PS/2 drunk mouse syndrome? Date: 18 Dec 1996 12:25:11 GMT Organization: Utsunomiya University, Utsunomiya, Japan Lines: 21 Message-ID: <598nr7$dem@nikko.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> References: <nHrfb5s@quack.kfu.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp X-Newsreader: mnews [version 1.19PL2] 1996-01/26(Fri) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32795 In article <nHrfb5s@quack.kfu.com> nsayer@quack.kfu.com wrote: nsayer>>Both of the machines I have that have PS/2 mice and 2.2-ALPHA nsayer>>(one is a P-120, the other a P-Pro-200) have a problem. Every nsayer>>once in a while, the data stream will go out of sync and moving nsayer>>the mouse will result in it going totally bonkers for a second or nsayer>>two, usually ending up in a corner. nsayer>> nsayer>>To be honest, I am not entirely sure whether to blame this on nsayer>>XF86-3.2 or 2.2-ALPHA, but I wonder if anyone else has noticed nsayer>>and perhaps worked around it. It IS 2.2-ALPHA's PS/2 mouse driver (psm) problem. It has many known problems and it is now being worked on. Until the fix is incorporated into 2.2, you may re-synchronize your mouse and the X server by switching away from the X server session to a virtual console and coming back. I know it's tedious, but it often works... Kazu