USB Mouse - only works after being replugged in

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Sat Mar 19 03:45:03 UTC 2011


On Fri, 18 Mar 2011, Barry Kominik wrote:

> I solved the issue. There were no errors. I set moused_port="/dev/ums0" in 
> rc.conf. Sorry for the noise. This is my first PC-BSD install, I do not 
> recall being asked if I was using a usb mouse. I am coming from and OpenBSD 
> and OpenSolaris background and didn't grok /etc/default/rc.conf. Once I 
> looked inside it was obvious what to do.

Thinking about it, it really doesn't seem that obvious.  The Handbook 
kind of skips over it instead of saying "If you have a USB mouse, it 
will be detected and moused started automatically."


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