An SMTP stream claimed that Kazutaka YOKOTA muttered:
> As far as I know, this is a hardware glitch often seen with the
> stick-shaped pointing device found on many notebook computers. The
> stick appears to be generating the "down" signal even when it is
> supposed to be in the "neutral" positi
>At first I was laboring under the assumption that this was an
>SMP-related problem and, while intensely irritating on my box "zippy",
>I figured it would at least only bite a small number of people and
>only in -current.
>
>Now I've switched over to a single-CPU box running RELENG_4 and this
>pr
I haven't seen this problem on my main box, which is SMP with 4.1-RC and
does not run moused. I haven't seen the psmintr error, but I have seen
another odd problem on my old Toshiba laptop under several versions of
4* and *does* run moused.
The symtoms under X is the cursor slowly creeps downwa
I'm running
moused -p /dev/psm0 -t auto
For RELENG_3 machines
$FreeBSD: src/usr.sbin/moused/moused.c,v 1.24.2.9 2000/04/21 14:21:39
yokota Exp $
For RELENG_4
$FreeBSD: src/usr.sbin/moused/moused.c,v 1.37.2.5 2000/04/21 13:45:16
yokota Exp $
and for Xfree86 3.3.6
Section "Pointer"
> I do occasionally get this under both RELENG_3 and RELENG_4 machines
> running moused and X when using logictech ps2 mice. I haven't had
> it happen with non-logictech mice..
I should note that I'm also using Logitech (MouseMan) PS/2 mice
in all these situations. Sorry, it's my standard
> FWIW, I have almost _never_ seen this. The only time I ever get this is
> if I am moving the mouse when I hit the console switch on my 4-port console
> switch, but it corrects itself almost instantaneously.
There must be something in my kernel configuration which competes for
interrupts or som
I do occasionally get this under both RELENG_3 and RELENG_4 machines
running moused and X when using logictech ps2 mice. I haven't had
it happen with non-logictech mice..
it's inconvenient when it happens, but has not happend suffiently
often to really hunt down what was happening, killing
