FreeBSD 5.2.1 usb problem
Andrew Boothman
andrew at mux.org.uk
Mon Mar 8 17:38:13 PST 2004
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.
>
> 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.
What did you try to do?
Could you show the output of "dmesg|grep ums0" and "usbdevs -d"?
Andrew
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