Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 15:51:26 +0000 (UTC) From: Walter Hurry <walterhurry@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD: SOLVED: FreeBSD9 - I can't get my mouse to work (was : FreeBSD9 - I can't get my mouse to work) Message-ID: <jqt71u$a3a$1@dough.gmane.org> References: <jqm3sr$1l5$1@dough.gmane.org> <CADGWnjUBP73DdS3Nk%2Bu635duPM6h4Cv7CZTMv3BBZ590q14kSg@mail.gmail.com> <CADGWnjUadM-rjZwaPtcQUbYUf-moTyN0bdE-M4eFYGb1UkDGbw@mail.gmail.com> <20120607145901.3022770d@scorpio> <jqt6ba$r15$1@dough.gmane.org>
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On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 15:39:22 +0000, Walter Hurry wrote: > 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. > Never mind: Stupid moi. The answer was staring me in the face in man rc.conf. moused_port.
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