From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 8 15:39:45 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 580AA106564A for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2012 15:39:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A3418FC0C for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2012 15:39:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Sd1Hq-0002Pd-BY for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2012 17:39:42 +0200 Received: from cpc3-walt15-2-0-cust148.13-2.cable.virginmedia.com ([86.21.186.149]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 08 Jun 2012 17:39:42 +0200 Received: from walterhurry by cpc3-walt15-2-0-cust148.13-2.cable.virginmedia.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 08 Jun 2012 17:39:42 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Walter Hurry Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 15:39:22 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <20120607145901.3022770d@scorpio> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cpc3-walt15-2-0-cust148.13-2.cable.virginmedia.com User-Agent: Pan/0.135 (Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea; GIT 30dc37b master) Subject: FreeBSD: SOLVED: FreeBSD9 - I can't get my mouse to work (was : FreeBSD9 - I can't get my mouse to work) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2012 15:39:45 -0000 On Thu, 07 Jun 2012 14:59:01 -0400, Jerry wrote: > Ubuntu, > Debian, and Fedora, and projects such as KDE, GNOME and X.org are in the > process of deprecating HAL as it has "become a large monolithic > unmaintainable mess". Well, I finally got it working. I'm far from an expert in this area, but what I think was happening was that the touchpad was grabbing /dev/psm0, and then X.org tried to allocate the same port for the USB mouse, which of course failed (even though I had specified a Device of /dev/ums0, and set AutoAddDevices to Off so as to take hald out of the picture). The solution for me was to run moused *on port /dev/ums0* and then specify the device as /dev/sysmouse in xorg.conf. However, that leads me to another question: my amateurish way to get moused to run on /dev/ums0 was to hack /etc/rc.d/moused and hard code it. I don't think that's very good, and I suspect that the "right" way to do it was to set some variable in /etc/rc.conf. Can anyone guide me on how that should be done, or point me to a fine manual? Thamks to all for the responses.