usbd / moused oddity

[Mathieu Prevot]

On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 12:32:05AM +0000, Gary Palmer wrote:
> Mathieu Prevot wrote:
> 
> >Hello,
> >
> >I remarked something I don't understand. I have a usb mouse, and if I
> >just have usbd_enable="YES" and moused_enable="NO" in rc.conf I can have a
> >functionnal mouse after boot. If I go to single-user mode from multi-user
> >mode and then back to multi-user mode with ^d, I don't have the process 
> >moused.
> >In the last case, I need to set moused_enable="YES" and 
> >moused_port="/dev/ums0".
> >
> >I use FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #32: Tue Feb 21 02:30:25 CET 2006 amd64
> > 
> >
> 
> (Assuming you have up-to-date devd.conf and usbd.conf): On first boot 
> the kernel pushes a list of devices the kernel found to devd, including 
> your mouse which isn't attached to moused yet.  devd fires up moused for 
> your mouse and life is happy.
> 
> You take the system single user, and everything is killed off (including 
> devd, and moused).  When you take the system multi-user again, devd is 
> restarted but the kernel has already pushed the list of devices out and 
> will only push new devices to devd, so moused will not be automatically 
> restarted.

Thanks for the explanation

Mathieu