mouse problems....

Jeremy Chadwick freebsd at jdc.parodius.com
Wed Oct 13 04:44:24 UTC 2010


On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 05:59:06AM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 20:20:18 -0700, Gary Kline <kline at thought.org> wrote:
> > 	Will you please check out this posting:
> > 
> > http://osdir.com/ml/freebsd.bugs/2002-03/msg00032.html
> > 
> > 	The way that the mose config worked  as to turn off the 
> > 	moused_enable, to moused_enable="NO".  Didn't seem to do
> > 	anything...
> 
> Yes, sounds familiar...
> 
> It is to be interpreted as follows:
> 
> If you use a USB mouse, set moused_enable="NO", as the USB subsystem
> will call moused with the correct settings automatically.

Correction -- it's devd(8) which auto-launches moused, not the USB
subsystem.  See /etc/devd.conf and look for the 'ums[0-9]+' entries.

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