USB mouse support

[Mark Ovens]

Trey Sizemore wrote:
> I've just installed FreeBSD 5.3 on my desktop machine (P4 2.8GHz with 
> 512MB RAM) and cannot get my mouse pointer to move in KDE.  It is a 
> Microsoft Wireless Optical 2.0 mouse (USB) and I have the following 
> section in my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file:
> 
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "Protocol" "Auto"
> Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
> Option "Buttons" "7"
> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> 
> I have installed FreeBSD from the disc 1 ISO file and installed 
> everything by default.  I have not done a kernel recomple at this point.
> 
> Is this an issue with my xorg.conf file or a USB issue that requires a 
> kernel recompile?  I did not see anything helpful in the Using X11 in 
> the manual.
> 

They don't work :-( I have to run mine on PS/2 via an adaptor. There is 
a patch in http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/70607 to fix 
this. I tried the first version of the patch; the mouse worked but there 
were other problems. There have been several modifications done to the 
patch since then that I haven't tried.

HTH

Regards,

Mark


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