i'm pretty new to the BSD world, but I'm enjoying learning, so help me learn would you?

My attempt is to make an older 500MHz P2 become a simple BSD GUI with gnome. I'm running 5.4-RELEASE and I'm totally lost on the mouse thing. First I guess I told it to load a serial mouse, but i have PS/2 or something, now I think it's loading it okay from a command line POV (but not sure). I am however one-hundred percent sure that the mouse is completely useless in Gnome. The gnome install is the std pkg_add from the 5.4-RELEASE CD(s). in dmesg the only lines that seem relevent to my mouse are as follows:

psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0
psm0: model 4D+ Mouse, device ID 8

that's what makes me think it is working ok from command line. The deal is that the mouse skips around non-stop. I go from the top right to the bottom left corners of my screen randomly, and it's so bad, that should a window be in the middle of my screen i can't click on it in gnome. If i bump it in command line, it starts randomly highlighting things all over the place.

the mouse is a PS/2 generic "Labtec" optical mouse. it has two buttons and a scroll wheel. the mouse itself is in perfect working order.

i've read a similar problem here:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/f...er/058039.html

but the answer suggests altering this file:
/etc/X11/XF86Config

which i apparently don't have...
kinda lost, can someone help?


Thanks
Tenshi

FreeBSD 5.4 uses xorg, so the file you are looking for is /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Try using "SysMouse" for the Protocol and /dev/sysmouse for the Device in the relevant section in your xorg.conf file - for example:

yet another file i seem not to have.:

# locate xorg.conf
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xorg.conf.eq
/usr/X11R6/man/man5/xorg.conf.5.gz
#

do i just want to create an xorg.conf file there? I think this is part of my confusion.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
UPDATE
Did this to create a file called /root/xorg.conf.new
still no luck on the mouse.
my mouse still doesn't work, and it points me back to /stand/sysinstall

the current lines in this config file read as follows:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "SysMouse"
Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection


Which is what it should look like correct?
And I'm lost again...


Tenshi

cp ~/xorg.conf.new /etc/x11/xorg.conf

All will (should) be well

sadly no, that doesn't fix anything, i still have the same behavior as i started with at the top of the post.

Tenshi

Is moused running? If you do a ps ax | grep moused you should see something like moused -t auto -3 -p /dev/psm0 (I think ... I don't have a BSD running X right now)

#ps -aux | grep moused
root 736 0.0 0.3 1240 752 ?? Is 11:04PM 0:00.15 moused -t auto -
root 917 0.0 0.7 2288 1744 p0 RV 12:19AM 0:00.00 grep moused (csh
#


yes...

Tenshi

When you copied the file to /etc/X11/ did you then restart X to see if it works? (I know, stupid question, but you never know).

slight

slight, yes, i've also tried the IMPS/2 idea you had, that gave me a fatal error saying that wasn't supported on this platform.

if it clarifies the issue at all, when i'm sysinstall and select the auto and PS/2 combo then enable the mouse, sysinstall prompts me with a yes or no box on "if my mouse is moving". i shake the mouse and the screen acts like i'm either trying to to up to a different submenu or pressing tab rapidly. whether i answer yes or no to that question doesn't seem to make a difference. could this problem be outside of X all together and be more of a command line mouse problem? or are they completely independent? if i'm using /dev/sysmouse and that device isn't configured right to begin with that could represent my problems in Gnome right? sorry, mice and x-windows are totally new to me in the *nix world.

Tenshi

Yes. The sysmouse in X is just an interface to the moused process. So, if moused (the console mouse) isn't working correctly, the X mouse won't either.

ok, well that helps, but how then do i fix moused?

and i know the answer isn't in sysinstall (as i've tried every mouse combo there).
is there a mouse file sysinstall writes to that i can override maybe?

Tenshi

Did you check your /etc/rc.conf for moused entries? Should look like this:


moused_enable="YES"
moused_flags=""
moused_port="/dev/psm0"
moused_type="auto"

just checking in case the mouse type here is wrong. Also - from what I am reading, you may be able to use the PS/2 protocol in your xorg.conf file if you kill off moused before going into X.

killall -9 moused

Try that and see if you get anything.

slight

i think i'm at least moving in the right direction...
i hadn't looked at the rc.conf file before to see what it was set to, however, i found a neat trick someone tried, and i think the error message i got here is the source of my problem...don't know how to fix it still, but better problem recognition is good right? anyway, after i tried Slight's killall deal, i went to turn the mouse daemon back on...

#moused -p /dev/sysmouse -t ps/2
moused: mouse type mismatch (mousesystems != ps/2), mousesystems is assumed
#

but then nothing happens when i shake the mouse...the cursor pops up on the screen, but it doesn't move, and i don't get any movements, spuratic or not
furthermore:

#moused -p /dev/sysmouse -t auto

does nothing, and i don't know why. it won't launch a process of any kind (and yes, i killed the other process.
----------------EDIT ADDING MORE INFO-----------------
#moused -p /dev/psm0 -t ps/2

mouse daemon launches, and i actually some normal-like behavior. i can move the mouse, but the wrong bump and it goes forever, picking up the mouse also yields it jumping around (all at command line). Launching X gives me nothing.

#moused -p /dev/psm0 -t sysmouse
daemon launched, but mouse is super messed up still.

the first one here after the edit is the closest thing i've gotten to success in a long time.



Tenshi

As I said about 7 posts back: moused -t auto -3 -p /dev/psm0