USB Mouse not Working

Adam J Richardson fatman.uk at gmail.com
Sat Jul 28 02:29:18 UTC 2007


Chris Maness wrote:
> I am having issues getting my USB mouse running.  I don't get any error 
> messages of the sort, and when I do #cat /dev/ums0 I don't get any funny 
> garbage like I normally do out of a IO device. (That is after I kill 
> moused).
> 
> Any suggestions?

I had this. I had to start some daemon before starting X... what was it 
now... devd? usbd? psmd? moused? Something like that, anyway. And I had 
to specify the "mouse port" IIRC. You know, something like "moused -p 
/dev/ums0".

Adam J Richardson


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