From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 19 20:40:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3ECB37B417 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 20:40:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16dOY2-000BKW-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 04:40:06 +0000 Received: from angel.raggedclown.net (angel.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.7]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [buffy]) with ESMTP id 21A9E13040 for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 05:40:06 +0100 (CET) Received: by angel.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [angel], from userid 6002) id 00C2622590; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 05:40:05 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 05:40:05 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Two Questions about usb keyboards and mice Message-ID: <20020220044005.GC11089@raggedclown.net> References: <20020219161839.A37002@freebsd.tekrealm.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020219161839.A37002@freebsd.tekrealm.net> 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 On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 04:18:39PM -0800, Andrew Stuart wrote: > First, something i found odd, on two systems, is it seems, without > having moused_enable="yes" in rc.conf, if you plug a usb mouse in, it > wont work. i have tried everything i can think of, but it just wont > work. It does start the process (as defined in usbd.conf) but there is > no mouse cursor. if i turn on the moused in rc.conf it works fine, > although i of course get an error message about psm0 since i dont have > a mouse hooked to it. question is, is this a bug or by design, and if > someone knows a work around. > This happens to me, I have just gotten so used to the error message about psm0 I have never gotten around to reporting it - since as you say once you do that it all works fine. It's clearly a bug, or at the very least an un-neccesary error message. I can only assume there is some side-effect from enabling moused that causes the USB mouse to start working. If there is not a PR about it I will submit one. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message