Strange Mouse issue
Guilmot Mike
mike.guilmot at pandora.be
Fri Sep 5 11:24:17 PDT 2003
On Friday 05 September 2003 20:18, Dragoncrest wrote:
> Recently I had my BSD install go totally down in flames with a smashing
> finale where it exploded into a billion pieces and wafted off into
> oblivion. (blame the hardware, not me.) Anywho, I've since resurrected
> the box but with one strange little quirk. The mouse freaks out like a
> cat on crack. Any movement causes it to jump to the upper left corner,
> go absolutely apesh** and do some totally weird things like false right
> and left clicks even if all I'm doing is moving the mouse. Reboot
> didn't resolve the issue (had to reboot anyways as part of a kernel
> rebuild) so I am assuming it's not a hardware issue. The mouse works
> fine in the console, but it absolutely will not work under X. Any
> ideas? I've even rebuilt my X config several times.
Is this in XFree86 while moused is still running ?
If yes, try killing moused.
This helped for me. The mouse ran just fine afterwards.
Kind regards,
Guilmot Mike
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