From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 9 18:22:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.cise.ufl.edu (beach.cise.ufl.edu [128.227.205.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 698F637B41A for ; Tue, 9 Apr 2002 18:22:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shine.cise.ufl.edu (shine.cise.ufl.edu [128.227.205.227]) by mail.cise.ufl.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACF546BE9 for ; Tue, 9 Apr 2002 21:22:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from nthomas@localhost) by shine.cise.ufl.edu (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id VAA22794 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 9 Apr 2002 21:22:23 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 21:22:23 -0400 From: "N. Thomas" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: nonfunctioning mouse; mouse/port is good Message-ID: <20020410012223.GA22741@cise.ufl.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Can't get my mouse working. The mouse is good, I've tried several actually, and I've checked them all on another (non-FreeBSD) machine to verify this. My machine has a serial mouse port, /dev/cuaa0, that is functioning properly. I verified this by attaching my Palm Pilot to it and transferring files. I've also checked that there are no gettys or other processes attached to the port itself. The mouse is a Microsoft serial, and I'm pretty sure I have the commands right. I run: vidcontrol -m on and then moused -f -p /dev/cuaa0 -t microsoft I've made sure no prior instantiations of moused were running in the background before this. I've tried putting the moused info into rc.conf, nothing works. I've also tried every combination of port and type. All the mice that I've tried have been ps/2 mice, so I'm using a converter to stick it into the serial port. My only guess is that this converter is bad -- the other machines I tested the mice on had a ps/2 port, so I wasn't able to check this. Before I go and shell out money for another one, is there anything else I can check software-wise? I'm no hardware expert, so I wouldn't know how to check the converter to see if it is bad. -- N. Thomas nthomas@cise.ufl.edu Etiamsi occiderit me, in ipso sperabo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message