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Friday, May 16th 2003, 5:32pm

Wild Mouse in KDE

Greeting Ya-All,

Have loaded KDE for the first time on a FreeBSD box. Everything seems to be working fine, except for the mouse.

The little bugger heads for the upper left corner and won't "play nice." I can make it wiggle, but it keeps wanting to stay up in the uper left corner.

I can setup my mouse fine in FreeBSD (/stand/sysinstall, Microsoft Mouse on COM2), but when I STARTX and KDE pops up, it starts acting up.

One other thing.... I notice that KDE wants to turn on my sound board, but I don't give it any thought (for now). Do you think it's wanting to conflict with my mouse?

Thanks Ahead of Time,
John Calvin Hall <AINWIAG4P>
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Friday, May 16th 2003, 6:53pm

Check the mouse protocol.

Sometimes this behaviour is from using ImPS/2 while the mouse can only do PS/2

Another thing that can happen under Linux (maybe BSD as well) is conflict between the mouse driver of X11 and the console mouse driver gpm.

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Friday, May 16th 2003, 8:34pm

:?

Thanks, I'll take a look into it.

The mouse is a Microsoft Compatible serial mouse on COM2 (not P/S2).

Maybe I should tinker around and toss a P/S2 on there...

jch

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Friday, May 16th 2003, 9:24pm

Hi John,

Quoted

Original von johnhall

The mouse is a Microsoft Compatible serial mouse on COM2 (not P/S2).


I mainly used that as an example for behaviour when using a wrong mouse protocol.
Could be something similar with your mouse.

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Tuesday, May 20th 2003, 1:54am

Taming a Wild Mouse

!!! WE FINALLY TAMED THE MOUSE !!!

Recently, I have been learning FreeBSD and KDE. When I installed and loaded KDE, everything worked fine except for the mouse which always wanted to run and hide up in the upper left corner of the screen!

For DAYS I had tried everything I could think of, until this afternoon, we went directly to xf86config and changed
OPTIONS "Protocol" "Microsoft" to
OPTIONS "Protocol" "Auto"

This tamed the little beasty and now KDE works great!

Hope my sweat and tears will be useful to others.

jch