5.1 mouse problems

C Peter Biessener pbiessener at hirshfields.com
Wed Jul 30 12:44:19 PDT 2003


Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> C Peter Biessener <pbiessener at hirshfields.com> writes:
> 
> 
>>We have a test machine setup with FreeBSD v5.1.  We're using the
>>default XFree for 5.1.  The machine is a PentiumPro 200 with 160MB RAM
>>and a S3 VirgeGX video card.
>>
>>X-Windows displays beautifully, but the mouse is extremely
>>sluggish. We've tried the Microsoft mouse that came with the computer,
>>and we've tried a Logitech mouse, the same as we use on all of our
>>other FreeBSD machines.  Both PS/2 mice behave the same (on screen).
>>The on-screen behavior of the mouse pointer makes it seem like the
>>pointer is not updating but every second or two - because other
>>on-screen focus changes happen before the mouse pointer moves to where
>>the focus change happens.
>>
>>Does anyone have any suggestions about how to resolve this mouse
>>pointer issue?
> 
> 
> Are you using the sysmouse daemon?

No, we're pretty much using 5.1 out-of-the-box...  I've loosened up the 
network security some for telnet, ftp, etc...  My process list and uname 
follow:

$ ps -ax
   PID  TT  STAT      TIME COMMAND
     0  ??  DLs    0:00.71  (swapper)
     1  ??  SLs    0:00.07 /sbin/init --
     2  ??  DL     0:34.48  (g_event)
     3  ??  DL     0:55.11  (g_up)
     4  ??  DL     1:22.21  (g_down)
     5  ??  DL     0:05.07  (pagedaemon)
     6  ??  DL     0:00.00  (vmdaemon)
     7  ??  DL     2:41.78  (pagezero)
     8  ??  DL     0:04.95  (bufdaemon)
     9  ??  DL     2:06.73  (syncer)
    10  ??  DL     0:00.00  (ktrace)
    11  ??  RL   1024:42.67  (idle)
    12  ??  WL     1:30.88  (swi1: net)
    13  ??  WL    15:25.97  (swi7: tty:sio clock)
    15  ??  DL     0:58.70  (random)
    17  ??  WL     0:22.48  (swi3: cambio)
    22  ??  WL     0:00.40  (irq15: ata1)
    23  ??  WL     0:19.20  (irq10: uhci0 ahc0)
    24  ??  DL     0:00.04  (usb0)
    25  ??  DL     0:00.00  (usbtask)
    26  ??  WL     1:50.16  (irq11: xl0)
    27  ??  WL     0:00.30  (irq1: atkbd0)
    29  ??  WL     0:00.00  (irq6: fdc0)
    31  ??  WL     0:00.00  (swi0: tty:sio)
    35  ??  DL     0:05.25  (vnlru)
    36  ??  IL     0:00.00  (nfsiod 0)
    37  ??  IL     0:00.00  (nfsiod 1)
    38  ??  IL     0:00.00  (nfsiod 2)
    39  ??  IL     0:00.00  (nfsiod 3)
   129  ??  Is     0:00.00 adjkerntz -i
   236  ??  Ss     0:01.81 /usr/sbin/syslogd -s
   326  ??  Ss     0:00.93 /usr/sbin/usbd
   382  ??  Ss     0:23.39 sendmail: accepting connections (sendmail)
   385  ??  Ss     0:00.48 sendmail: Queue runner at 00:30:00 for 
/var/spool/clientmqueue (
   403  ??  Ss     0:03.44 /usr/sbin/cron
   430  ??  Is     0:00.11 /usr/sbin/inetd -wW
   457  ??  Is     0:00.40 xdm
   460  ??  Is    74:31.31 /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 -auth 
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/authdir/a
65303  ??  Is     0:00.25 xdm: :0 (xdm)
65314  ??  I      0:00.17 xconsole -geometry 480x130-0-0 -daemon -notify 
-verbose -fn f
68494  ??  Ss     0:00.28 telnetd
68495  p1  Is     0:00.16 login [pam] (login)
68496  p1  S      0:00.07 -sh (sh)
68503  p1  R+     0:00.00 ps -ax
   442  v0  Is+    0:00.03 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv0
   443  v1  Is     0:00.17 login [pam] (login)
   454  v1  I+     0:00.04 -sh (sh)
   444  v2  Is+    0:00.03 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv2
   445  v3  Is+    0:00.03 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv3
   446  v4  Is+    0:00.03 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv4
   447  v5  Is+    0:00.03 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv5
   448  v6  Is+    0:00.03 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv6
   449  v7  Is+    0:00.03 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv7
$ uname -a
FreeBSD empire.hirshfields.com 5.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE #0: Thu 
Jun  5 02:55:42 GMT 2003 
root at wv1u.btc.adaptec.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386



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