Problem with PS/2 mouse driver in XFree86 4.3.0

Doug White dwhite at gumbysoft.com
Sun Aug 10 15:32:29 PDT 2003


On Sun, 10 Aug 2003, Daniel Flickinger wrote:

>     I had the same problem starting about a year ago when I
>     finally gave up and upgraded to X4. The problem appears
>     to be that the X4 driver does not disable the console
>     mouse and the two of them fight over the interrupts.

Well yeah moused and X can't both use the mouse at once. You should get a
'device busy' error.  If you want to use moused then have X gets its
events from moused (/dev/sysmouse) and not psm0.

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