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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