USB mouse support

Trey Sizemore trey at fastmail.fm
Sun Nov 28 13:03:17 PST 2004


Mark Ovens wrote:

>On Sun November 28 2004 19:35, Trey Sizemore wrote:
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>>Mark Ovens wrote:
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>>>On Sun November 28 2004 18:28, Trey Sizemore wrote:
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>>>>Hmmm...not sure why mine's not working then.  Is your mouse the wireless
>>>>version?  Mine says Microsoft Wireless Mouse 2.0 (it's kind of a light
>>>>purple color ).
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>>>>
>>>Yes, same as mine.
>>>
>>>You did change ''moused_port'' in /etc/rc.conf to /dev/psm0 when you
>>>connected it to the PS/2 port, didn't you?
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>>>
>>I'll have to check...I'm doing a portupgrade right now, so I'll have to
>>check when that finishes.
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>I've just applied the patch in PR kern/70607 and it works just fine - although 
>I've not tested the tilt wheel because, as I said, I don't use it so I'm not 
>sure how to set it up in FreeBSD.
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When you say it works fine, do you mean you've attached the mouse via 
USB?  I'm new to FreeBSD, so how do I apply this patch to get the mouse 
to work?

Thanks again.



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