A hyper mouse or normal mouse but you cannot click

Jeebizz · 01-17-2019, 03:31 PM

This is some kind of GhostBSD thing. I am playing with GhostBSD 18.12, and the only issue I have is the mouse. Seriously, I have it set on the lowest setting for both acceleration and sensitivity - but it is just as fast and sensitive:

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I then went into the settings in VirtualBox, changed the pointing device from PS/2 to USB Tablet, much better the speed and sensitivity is now sane; but now I cannot actually click on anything, great!

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So my choices are:

1. Extremely hyper mouse cursor movement
2. Sane speeds, but can't actually do anything

Thoughts?

cynwulf · 01-17-2019, 04:38 PM

Is it a PS/2 mouse or a USB one?

Is moused(8) enabled in rc.conf?

Jeebizz · 01-17-2019, 04:45 PM

USB mouse. Also since I am using VirtualBox I first left it on default PS/2. As for rc.conf, this is left over from the live iso even though I installed GhostBSD:

Code:

kload_nvidia=nvidia0modeset nvidia"
root_rw_mount=NO"
sendmail_enable="NONE"
sendmail_submit_enable="NO"
sendmail_outbound_enable="NO"
sendmail_msp_queue_enable="NO"
devfs_system_ruleset="devfsrules_common"
rc_interactive="YES"
ntpd_enable="YES"
ntpd_sync_on_start="YES"
keymap="us.iso"
hostname="breadmoth.ghostbsd-pc.home"
zfs_enable="YES"
ifconfig_em0="DHCP"

cynwulf · 01-17-2019, 05:01 PM

Does the VM provide an option to change it from a PS/2 to USBHID or whatever? (same for keyboard)

Jeebizz · 01-17-2019, 05:09 PM

Yes, I actually have 3 choices - PS/2 , USB-Tablet and USB-Tablet-Multitouch. If I want to actually be able to click anything, I have to select PS/2 as shown in my screenshots.

cynwulf · 01-17-2019, 05:18 PM

Yes sorry, you did state as much in your original post...

Try enabling moused in rc.conf for a start and see if that changes anything.

Jeebizz · 01-17-2019, 05:19 PM

So would that just be mousepad="YES" ?

Jeebizz · 01-17-2019, 05:29 PM

mousepad="YES" has no effect, it is still really fast, or I cannot click anything when I switch between PS/2 and USB Tablet on the VM settings.

cynwulf · 01-17-2019, 05:57 PM

moused_enable="YES"

As detailed in rc.conf(5)

Jeebizz · 01-17-2019, 06:03 PM

Still no effect, mouse is still really fast and sensitive on PS/2.

Trihexagonal · 01-17-2019, 06:21 PM

I no longer have any mouse variables in /etc/rc.conf but try:

mouse_type="auto"

Jeebizz · 01-17-2019, 06:26 PM

Nope, still no change. A valiant try I appreciate all your attempts. I have to conclude something is just wrong with how GhostBSD is setup by default. *shrug*

Trihexagonal · 01-17-2019, 06:35 PM

Well, GhostBSD did recently start following TrueOS...

cynwulf · 01-18-2019, 03:59 AM

I suggest just installing FreeBSD and seeing if you get the same mouse behaviour...

Better still would be to get rid of the flakey x86 virtualisation and install on bare metal.

You could try vmware of course, if memory serves I had better luck with that with any of the 'BSDs.

Jeebizz · 01-19-2019, 12:06 PM

I'll try FreeBSD again. Only problem with FreeBSD after trying to follow documentation and configuring I couldn't even get a proper XWindows session to work. Installing on actual hardware is not an option. Right now I am just experimenting to see where it goes, which is why I am running a VM instead.