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From: Tony Maher <Tony.Maher@eBioinformatics.com>
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To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: multiple mice at startup
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Hello,

I have been using external ps2 mouse on my laptop but it is annoying as 
have to suspend (or switch off) to disconnect it.

Recently got a usb mouse which works perfectly apart from having
to kill -HUP the moused daemon after reinserting (as per man page).
Then started looking at having 2 mice running simulatenous (the inbuilt
mouse plus usb) and read man page for moused - perfect run 2 moused,
works beautifully.

I added "/usr/sbin/moused -p /dev/psm0 -t auto"
to rc.local and normal moused in rc.conf.  Works fine, except overwrote
/var/run/moused.pid.  No problem:
"/usr/sbin/moused -p /dev/psm0 -t auto -I /var/run/moused-psm0.pid"


But wondered wheter it would be nicer to modify rc.i386 and rc.conf
to handle multiple mice.  And modify filenames /var/run so you know
which moused is running on which port.

WARNING - Only been playing with the following on command line and not as
root.

                           --------------------
Addtion to defaults/rc.conf

moused_extra=""		# list mice defintion numbers that are attempted to start

                           --------------------

Addtions to rc.conf (for example)

moused_extra="1 2 29"

moused_flags1="-m 2=4"
moused_port1="/dev/psm0"
moused_type1="auto"

moused_flags2=""
moused_port2="/dev/cua2"
moused_type2="busmouse"

moused_flags29=""
moused_port29="/dev/cua29"
moused_type29="29mouse"

                           --------------------
#
# rc.i386.test
#
. /etc/rc.conf
# mouse daemon(s)
if [ "X${moused_enable}" = X"YES" ] ; then
	for m in "" ${moused_extra}; do
		eval mport=\$moused_port${m}
		if [ ! -n "$mport" ] ; then
			break
		fi
		eval mtype=\$moused_type${m}
		if [ ! -n "$mtype" ] ; then
			mtype="auto"
		fi
		eval mflag=\$moused_flags${m}
		port=`echo ${mport} | awk -F '/' '{ print$(NF) }'`
		echo -n " moused (${port})"
		echo ""
		echo "moused ${mflag} -p ${mport} -t ${mtype} -I /var/run/moused-${port}.pid"
	done
       echo "vidcontrol <${viddev} -m on"
fi

                           --------------------

Should not affect existing installations except for the pid filename in
/var/run and change to output at boot up giving port each moused is on.

It would be nice if usbd daemon had support for apmd style (apmd.conf 
and hence rc.resume) to allow it to send kill -HUP to moused on reinsertion
of usb mouse - (maybe one day when I get some free time!)

This is all on 3.4, dont have a current machine at present.
Does current have better usb support (I mean more features, 3.4 is pretty
damn good!)

Is this useful or a sledgehammer to crack a nut?

thanks
tonym


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