IPMI KVM mouse in absolute/tablet mode?

[O'Connor, Daniel]

> On 16 Jun 2020, at 06:13, Stefan Bethke <stb at lassitu.de> wrote:
> When I switch from "Absolute Mouse Mode" to "Relative Mouse Mode", the pointer moves, and the dmesg shows X, Y, and Z:
> ugen0.6: <American Megatrends Inc. Virtual Keyboard and Mouse> at usbus0 (disconnected)
> ukbd0: at uhub2, port 5, addr 5 (disconnected)
> ukbd0: detached
> ums0: at uhub2, port 5, addr 5 (disconnected)
> ums0: detached
> ugen0.6: <American Megatrends Inc. Virtual Keyboard and Mouse> at usbus0
> ukbd0 on uhub2
> ukbd0: <Keyboard Interface> on usbus0
> kbd2 at ukbd0
> ums0 on uhub2
> ums0: <Mouse Interface> on usbus0
> ums0: 3 buttons and [XYZ] coordinates ID=0
> 
> I couldn't immediately find anything about support for the absolute/tablet mode.

Currently ums doesn't grok absolute mice, however you can use utouch instead - check out the misc/utouch-kmod port.

I've successfully used it with Supermicro IPMI - good luck :)

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