USB mouse troubles

Michael Nottebrock michaelnottebrock at gmx.net
Thu Apr 7 07:18:30 PDT 2005


On Thursday, 7. April 2005 14:08, Jilles Tjoelker wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:17:55PM +0200, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> > FreeBSD 5.x has had funky issues with usb mice for as long as I've
> > been using a usb mouse with it, but since it almost works ok with the
> > default configuration, I never got around to complain about it. ;-)
>
> AFAIK FreeBSD 4.x has the same issues and some more, e.g. systems with
> more than one USB bus require a manual MAKEDEV for hotplugging to work
> correctly (as only /dev/usb0 is created by default).

FreeBSD 4 (with device nodes existing, granted) does at least not have the 
problem with the mouse going dead when returning from single user mode.

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