Re: iichid/hms keyboard/mouse wrongly reattached to uhid/ums

On Mon, 27 Jun 2022 15:19:28 +0000
Ivan Quitschal <tezeka@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all
> 
> Not sure if I found a problem here but here we go.
> 
> Since I have a KVM usb switch here for keyboard/mouse sometimes I
> toggle it between my windows and freebsd. I am using iichid here to
> have my multimedia keys working on keyboard and all
> 
> hw.usb.usbhid.enable="1"
> 
> Im also using Wulf's moused
> https://github.com/wulf7/moused
> so far so good. Problem is:
> 
> when I switch to windows , everything is detached correctly (hms,
> hkbd etc), but when I switch back, sometimes the keyboard and mouse
> are wrongly attached to "ums" device , not hms. (sometimes it goes to
> the correct one). Shouldn't ums/uhid modules be deactivated once
> hw.usb.usbhid.enable is set to 1 ?
> 
> The workaround I did here was to manually kldunload both uhid.ko and
> ums.ko within rc.local during boot. This way I can detache attach the
> kbd/mouse back as much as I want and it always end up in hms/hkbd
> devices
> 
> Is this how its supposed to function? Randomly choosing between ums
> or hms?

Did you set hw.usb.usbhid.enable="1" in /boot/loader.conf, or by using
the sysctl? If you don't do it yet, I'd recommend the former.

Cheers
Michael

> 
> Thanks
> 
> --tzk
> 



-- 
Michael Gmelin