USB mouse support

Trey Sizemore trey at fastmail.fm
Sat Nov 27 14:13:43 PST 2004


Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN] wrote:

>On Saturday 27 November 2004 21:28, 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.
>>    
>>
>Make sure you have usbd running and have set usbd_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf
>  
>
Both of  these are done.

>When a mouse is plugged in usbd should start moused to handle the input.
>The debug output on your console should state ums0 being attached when the 
>mouse is plugged in.
>  
>
How do I see this?

Thanks.


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