USB mice

[Teilhard Knight]

On 12/24/05, Teilhard Knight <teilhk at crosswinds.net> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> It seems to me that the way FreeBSD is catching up with new 
> > > >> hardware
> > > >> leaves you unsatisfied. One has to choose, upon boot, the option to
> > > >> use
> > > >> an USB keyboard by hand, and I have found no way to make a USB 
> > > >> mouse
> > > >> to
> > > >> work. The OS broadly supports serial mice and hardly PS/2 mice, 
> > > >> both
> > > >> almost out of the market nowadays. Are USB mice supported by 
> > > >> FreeBSD?
> > > >>
> > > >> Teilhard.
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> > > > Currently all three systems which run FreeBSD have USB mice, two of
> > > > them
> > > > just plain Logitech optical mouses, the third is a Logitech MX 300,
> > > > but
> > > > every other mouse should work when you have enabled moused. Try 
> > > > plugin
> > > > in
> > > > the mouse when FreeBSD is up and running, it should detect it
> > > > automatically
> > >
> > > It didn't work. Actually I have a little more than a USB mouse, I have 
> > > a
> > > wireless mouse and wireless keyboard which are both controlled by a
> > > central
> > > unit which plugs into an USB port in the computer. The keyboard works
> > > well,
> > > with the option of booting with an USB keyboard, but I cannot make the
> > > mouse
> > > work. Any suggestions?
> > >
> > > Teilhard.
> > >
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> >
> > load the ums module by typing these  command. you need to be root 
> > though.
> >
> >
> >
> > # kldload ums
> > # moused -p /dev/ums0 -t auto
> >
> > then see if the mouse daemon is running using top or ps.
> >
> > ---
> > if this does not work you may have to rebuild yoru kernel with the
> > following options
> >
> > device ohci
> > device ums
> > --------------
> >
> > Thanks. Upon issuing the command:
> >
> > # kldload ums,
> >
> > I get:
> >
> > 'kldload: can't load ums: file exists'.
> >
> > But if I go to /dev, ums is not present. Are you sure kldload is the 
> > right
> > command?
> >
> > Teilhard.
> >
> >
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>
> i am positive.
> The message basically means that the ums module is already. You can
> check this by issuing the command
>
> # kldstat
>
> Yes, I have found it. It is under /usr/src/sys/modules. Shouldn't it be
> under /dev? The second command you ask me to perform gives an error: 'no
> such device ums0'. What should I do now?
>
> Teilhard
>
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><From what you said earlier, i can deduce that the ums module is
*already* loaded. It seems that FreeBSD cannot de tect your mouse at
bootup. I don't really know what to do next. Could you tell me what
you get when you issue:

#  cat /var/run/dmesg.boot | grep ums

uname -a will tell me what version  of FreeBSD you are using

and

# uname -a


This can tell us what is detected at boot time.>

I'm having problems now. ums seems to have disappeared, at least when I go 
to /usr/src/sys/modules, I cannot find it. However when I run:

# kldload ums

I get the same as before: "file exists". Konqueror cannot find ums either. 
It found it when I wrote to you, but not anymore. I have been fiddling with 
Konqueror manually in absence of a mouse and I highlighted the module path 
to be able to read it complete and then I hit enter to leave it as it was. 
Do you think I might made it hidden?

The first command you ask me to perform gives nothing under these 
circumstances. uname -a, gives 'FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE', and gives the time and 
says I am using the GENERIC kernel, that's all.

Teilhard.