USB mouse support

Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN] Danovitsch at vitsch.net
Mon Nov 29 00:13:57 PST 2004


On Saturday 27 November 2004 23:13, you wrote:
> Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN] wrote:
> >On Saturday 27 November 2004 21:28, Trey Sizemore wrote:
> >>I've just installed FreeBSD 5.3 on my desktop machine (P4 2.8GHz with
> >>512MB RAM) and cannot get my mouse pointer to move in KDE.  It is a
> >>Microsoft Wireless Optical 2.0 mouse (USB) and I have the following
> >>section in my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file:
> >>
> >>Driver "mouse"
> >>Option "Protocol" "Auto"
> >>Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
> >>Option "Buttons" "7"
> >>Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> >>
> >>I have installed FreeBSD from the disc 1 ISO file and installed
> >>everything by default.  I have not done a kernel recomple at this point.
> >>
> >>Is this an issue with my xorg.conf file or a USB issue that requires a
> >>kernel recompile?  I did not see anything helpful in the Using X11 in
> >>the manual.
> >
> >Make sure you have usbd running and have set usbd_enable="YES" in
> > /etc/rc.conf
>
> Both of  these are done.
>
> >When a mouse is plugged in usbd should start moused to handle the input.
> >The debug output on your console should state ums0 being attached when the
> >mouse is plugged in.
>
> How do I see this?
> Thanks.
Bright white text should show up on your text console (ttyv0) starting with 
"ums0: ". The same text should also end up in the output of the "dmesg" 
command.

Daan


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