iBook G4: moused doesn't work?

Nathan Whitehorn nwhitehorn at freebsd.org
Sun Dec 11 20:02:22 UTC 2011


On 12/11/11 12:53, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> How do I get moused working on a iBook G4[1]?
> I'm running FreeBSD 9.0-RC2:
> root at kg-ibook# uname -a
> FreeBSD kg-ibook.kg4.no 9.0-RC2 FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 #0: Mon Nov 14 08:04:49 UTC 2011
>       marcel at xserve.lan.xcllnt.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  powerpc
>
> The touchpad is detected in dmesg:
> usbus0: 12Mbps Full Speed USB v1.0
> ums0:<vendor 0x05ac product 0x1000, class 0/0, rev 2.00/19.65, addr 2>  on usbus0
> ums0: 5 buttons and [XY] coordinates ID=0
> ugen0.3:<Apple Computer>  at usbus0
> atp0:<Touchpad>  on usbus0
>
> and moused is started:
> root at kg-ibook# ps ax | grep moused
>   1380  ??  Is    0:00.00 /usr/sbin/moused -p /dev/ums0 -t auto -I /var/run/moused.ums0.pid
>   2170   0  R+    0:00.00 grep moused
>
> and the mouse pointer shows up on (in?) the console, but it doesn't work. :-/
>
>
> References:
> 1) http://sites.google.com/site/tingox/ibook_g4

You need to set up moused to point to the touchpad device, atp0. There's 
an example in the atp(4) manpage, but all you need to do is to put the 
following in rc.conf:
moused_enable="YES"
moused_port="/dev/atp0"
-Nathan


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