weird mouse reaction and movement 5.1

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Dec 02), charles pelletier said:
> So I just installed, for the first time, 5.1 on a new machine. My
> problem is this: In Sysinstall, when i select my mouse (ps/2, MS 3
> button optical) then enable and test the port, all of a sudden I see
> an early part of the installation wizard (the partitioning part) and
> i can't escape out of it.  It is as if the mouse scrolls through a
> history of what i've done page by page until it reaches that part. I
> can ctrl-c out of sysinstall and it is as if nothing ever happened.
>
> Is this a strange event to anyone else? Is there a way to fix it w/
> flags, etc? It was suggested to me by a friend that I kill moused
> before I start up sysinstall but it isn't running in the first place.

I've never seen that before, but you can probably just skip the mouse
configuration part, and then set it up after the install is done (for
your mouse, just adding moused_enable="YES" to /etc/rc.conf should
suffice, since ps/2+autosense is the default).

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com