From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 25 17:15:28 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E73716A4CE for ; Sun, 25 Jan 2004 17:15:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from 82-41-27-158.cable.ubr04.edin.blueyonder.co.uk (82-41-27-158.cable.ubr04.edin.blueyonder.co.uk [82.41.27.158]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FC2E43D39 for ; Sun, 25 Jan 2004 17:15:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrew@cream.org) Received: from cream.org (spatula.flat [192.168.0.2]) by myriad.flat (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DE63BA; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 00:07:20 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <40146A37.4070505@cream.org> Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 01:15:35 +0000 From: Andrew Boothman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Shaun Friedle References: <000d01c3e3a6$01c0ba70$0f01a8c0@SHAUN> In-Reply-To: <000d01c3e3a6$01c0ba70$0f01a8c0@SHAUN> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My USB mouse not working in FreeBSD 5.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 01:15:28 -0000 Shaun Friedle wrote: > Hi, > I am very new to FreeBSD, but I'm trying to learn how to use it. This is made very difficult by not having a mouse. > > I have tried searching on Google for a few hours, but haven't fixed the problem yet. Anyway, here it is: > > My mouse is a "Logitech Cordless Desktop iTouch" optical USB mouse. Hmmmm - I can remember some people reporting problems with these mice - but I had one that worked flawlessly. > /dev/ums0 does exist. > > If I try to set up the mouse deamon in /stand/sysinstall the cursor will not move when set to Auto (or any other protocol). > > If I do "moused -p /dev/ums0" I get "moused: unable to open /dev/ums0: Device busy". That's becuase there should already be a moused running. usbd will start a new moused when it discovers a mouse connected. Do a 'ps ax|grep moused' and see if moused is already running > dmesg finds everything alright: > ums0: Logitech USB Receiver, rev 1.10/13.10, addr 2, iclass 3/1 > ums0: 5 buttons and Z dir. > > When I try to use X everything is OK, but I just can't mouse the cursor. Then in your X config you should be able to use /dev/sysmouse Hope that gets you up and running! Cheers. P.S. There's a mailing list for UK FreeBSD users - have a look at http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org - it can go pretty quiet but is good for UK-related chat ;)