On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, Doug Poland wrote: > > Which appears to tell the psm driver to ignore all that and be boring > > with respect to synaptics features (i.e., work). > > > Would this have anything to do with the mouse on a Dell laptop moving > all by itself? When I boot with ACPI enabled on 5.2.1-R or 5.3Beta the > mouse will simply go wild, moving all over the screen at will. This > happens at the console and in X (both XFree86 and XOrg). No, that's probably a problem with your Dell notebook. I've had two Dells do it, and they do it under Windows as well. I was sure it was a FreeBSD psm bug for months and months, and spent days hacking on psm trying to figure out what was triggering it. Then one day I was sitting in a meeting at our offices in Santa Clara, and a whole room of people were typing on Dells, and about once a minute someone would go "Damn mouse". Then it clicked :-). I wouldn't rule out a recent FreeBSD change doing it, but given my experiences I'd think it more likely to be a hardware issue. it went away each time I replaced the motherboard, but came back a few months later, suggesting wear-and-tear. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert_at_fledge.watson.org Principal Research Scientist, McAfee ResearchReceived on Sat Aug 28 2004 - 17:59:16 UTC
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