FreeBSD 5.2.1 usb problem
Mike Crosland
miketemp at xs4all.nl
Mon Mar 8 16:51:45 PST 2004
On Mon, 08 Mar 2004 22:53:07 +0000, Andrew Boothman <andrew at mux.org.uk>
wrote:
> Mike Crosland wrote:
>> I have a problem with getting my usb mouse/keyboard combination running
>> in FreeBSD. It's a Logitech diNovo, and although both keyboard and
>> mouse both work fine under Linux I can only get the keyboard working
>> under FreeBSD. The mouse is correctly recognised when booting, but is
>> given the same usb device address as the keyboard. Using 'cat
>> /dev/usm0' gives no output, and attempts to use /dev/usm0 reports that
>> the device is busy. Is it possible to manually assign usb device
>> addresses in order to try and work round this?
>
> If your ums0 is being probed then usbd (if it is running) will start a
> moused attached to /dev/ums0, you can then tell X (or whatever) to use
> /dev/sysmouse
>
> Use "usbdevs -d" to check if your mouse has been probed, then check "ps
> ax|grep moused" to see if a moused has been started for you.
>
> Andrew
>
That's exactly what I tried to do. Doesn't work I'm afraid :-/ No signal
from the mouse is getting detected as as far as I can tell.
Thanks anyway
Mike
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