> Robert Watson wrote: > > > > 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. > Well, that would explain much. This laptop (Dell C600) worked quite nicely when 5.2.1 was released. The mouse situation has slowly deteriorated in recent months. It's a shame if it's a hardware problem cause paying to have this laptop fixed is not an option. Thanks for taking the time to explain it to me. -- Regards, Doug _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win 1 of 4,000 free domain names from Yahoo! Enter now. http://promotions.yahoo.com/goldrushReceived on Sun Aug 29 2004 - 01:03:45 UTC
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