Re: USB mice

On 12/24/05, Teilhard Knight <teilhk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Teilhard Knight 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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