Hi,

The mouse on SmartOS is always in tablet (-usb -usbdevice tablet) mode as this generally works better with VNC as this accepts absolute x,y instead of relative.

It might be that FreeBSD is expecting a PS2 emulated mouse by default. (/dev/sysmouse) seems to hint at that. Seems like a few people are having the same problem: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/33609/

The solution always seems to be the same, remove those options and use the normal PS2 emulated mouse.

I'm not sure you can do this easily via SmartOS, append options is easy but removing, I found nothing on that front.

Regards

Jorge


On 2016-04-22 05:20, G B via smartos-discuss wrote:

I've tried both moused="YES" and moused="NO" in /etc/rc.conf and the mouse pointer just sits in the middle of the screen.

The xorg.conf was generated with Xorg -configure

On Thursday, April 21, 2016 9:35 PM, Chuck Barker <[email protected]> wrote:

You've probably already visited the FreeBSD handbook for troubleshooting tips.
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/x11-understanding.html
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html

If the mouse worked when at the command line, but not since X11 was installed, then check the /etc/rc.conf file.
Verify a line entry exists that reads;
moused_enable="NO"

What commands were used to generate the xorg.conf?
These commands?

Xorg -configure
Xorg -config /root/xorg.conf.new

On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 7:10 PM, G B via smartos-discuss <[email protected]> wrote:

I'm using FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE-33 built from .iso in KVM on SmartOS 3/31 image. Everything works fine and X11 is installed and starts a window manager, except the mouse doesn't work. I've tried generating an xorg.conf with:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"

Under "Section "ServerLayout""
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"

I've tried WindowMaker, XFCE, and dwm. Just an arrow in the center of the window that won't move. Any suggestions to get the mouse working?

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