Re: VIA chipset discussion

Rogerio Brito (rbrito@iname.com)
Fri, 19 Jan 2001 04:42:13 -0200


On Jan 18 2001, Matthew Fredrickson wrote:
> BTW, are you having any trouble with your ps/2 mouse port in X?

Like I said in the previous e-mail, I'm using right now an
Asus A7V mobo with Linus' stock kernel 2.2.18 with André's
patches.

I'm using basically a Debian potato here with XFree86 3.3.6
and a Microsoft Intellimouse (with IMPS/2 protocol) and
everything seems to be working fine. Before my brand new 40GB
Samsung HD died, I was using a more modified potato, including
XFree86 4.0.1e (or 4.0.1f, I don't remember). Everything was
also working fine with this older setup.

> On my new ASUS board, ps/2 mouse devices (just in X, gpm works fine)
> act a little crazy (random mouse movement, random clicking, etc.,
> except I'm not the one doing all the random movement). I'm not sure
> what it is, though I do know it's not as bad once I upgraded from
> 2.2.18pre21 to 2.4.0.

I usually only follow Alan's pre series when things are broken
with the final releases, so I don't know about 2.2.18preX. I'm
sorry that I can't help.

> I think I'm going to try using the mouse as a usb device and see if
> I still have trouble.

Unfortunately, I have never ever seen a USB device, so I have
no experience here to help you.

> Anyway, just wondering if you're seeing the same problem.

No, but have you tried changing the mouse? I've had problems
with a Matrox G400 AGP 16MB monohead that I purchased when I
got my system. It did crash when X was running in Linux and
FreeBSD (and many versions of X, for that matter), but under
Windows it worked flawlessly.

When I used Matrox's drivers with XFree86 4.x, it worked
perfectly. I changed my Matrox and now I'm using a new one
under X 3.3.6 under potato (a stable platform that I use) and
everything is fine).

So, perhaps you could try changing your mouse?

[]s, Roger...

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