Problem with Razer Copperhead (USB-mouse)

Anish Mistry mistry.7 at osu.edu
Tue Apr 4 02:10:32 UTC 2006


On Monday 03 April 2006 19:37, Christian Baer wrote:
> Good evening, folks!
>
> A few hours ago I installed FreeBSD on a new machine. This is the
> only one I have with a USB-mouse attached (the stated Copperhead) -
> actually, it's the only machine I have with any type of mouse
> attached. :-)
>
> FreeBSD boots fine and also recognizes the mouse correctly:
>
>   kernel: uhid0: Razer Razer Copperhead Laser Mouse, rev
> 2.00/21.00, addr 2, iclass 3/1
>
> Well, as you can see, it's recognized correctly by name, but
> seemingly not as a mouse. The result is that FreeBSD starts
> "typing" letters, when I move the mouse. At the same time my "real"
> keyboard doesn't work (IBM Model M - PS/2 of course). If I want a
> keyboard I have to unplug the mouse from the computer. Everything
> works as it should then - apart from the mouse of course.
Is there a ukbd in your dmesg?  If there is, I'd suggest loading 
kbdmux.

>
> Aunty Google only revealed one "real" fact to me (which I actually
> expected): A USB mouse should probably be logged as ums, not as
> uhid.
Currently there isn't support for mice that appear as uhid.  You could 
always just try pointing moused at the uhid device.

-- 
Anish Mistry
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