On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 10:36:30AM -0700, Joseph Olatt wrote: > Hi, > > After installing OpenBSD 5.1 this morning, I found out that my Synaptics > clickpad mouse no longer moves. Right and Left button clicks work. In > Fluxbox, trying to move the mouse pointer results in the workspaces > getting changed. But, the mouse pointer does not move at all.
The change of workspace is because the scroll in your touchpad works. > > Attaching a PS/2 mouse and restarting Xorg will bring back mouse > functionality. But trying to move the mouse pointer using the Synaptics > pad is useless. > > dmesg is at: > http://www.eskimo.com/~joji/openbsd5.1/dmesg.boot > > Xorg log is at: > http://www.eskimo.com/~joji/openbsd5.1/Xorg.0.log > > > Last night I had installed OpenBSD 5.0 and the Synaptics mouse was > working fine. So, I don't *think* it is a hardware problem. > > Thank you. I've had the same issue in the past with xfce and spectrwm. I didn't report the problem because was intermitent. Can you try the last snapshot? http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/i386/ If I remember correctly, I haven't had the problem from the last month. I am not sure because I haven't used my netbook too much time the last month. I hope that my additional (and limited) info helps you with the problem :) -- Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado http://juanfra.info
