Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 06:35:18 -0600 From: "Teilhard Knight" <teilhk@crosswinds.net> To: "FreeBDS" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: USB mice Message-ID: <025b01c60886$80de73e0$210110ac@fortunato> References: <01a001c6086d$8c0d57e0$210110ac@fortunato> <43AD197A.50905@gmx.net> <01bd01c60872$faef7990$210110ac@fortunato> <ab3b3690512240227u7804509dl9840af1a939717d@mail.gmail.com> <022401c60879$d6309150$210110ac@fortunato> <ab3b3690512240308l449f547gac1776209370ab65@mail.gmail.com> <025201c6087f$664b2f70$210110ac@fortunato> <ab3b3690512240402v17013e42r66e5ee00eebea8ee@mail.gmail.com>
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On 12/24/05, Teilhard Knight <teilhk@crosswinds.net> wrote: > > > > > > > >> It seems to me that the way FreeBSD is catching up with new > > > >> hardware > > > >> leaves you unsatisfied. One has to choose, upon boot, the option to > > > >> use > > > >> an USB keyboard by hand, and I have found no way to make a USB > > > >> mouse > > > >> to > > > >> work. The OS broadly supports serial mice and hardly PS/2 mice, > > > >> both > > > >> almost out of the market nowadays. Are USB mice supported by > > > >> FreeBSD? > > > >> > > > >> Teilhard. > > > >> _______________________________________________ > > > >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > > >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > > >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > > >> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > >> > > > >> > > > > Currently all three systems which run FreeBSD have USB mice, two of > > > > them > > > > just plain Logitech optical mouses, the third is a Logitech MX 300, > > > > but > > > > every other mouse should work when you have enabled moused. Try > > > > plugin > > > > in > > > > the mouse when FreeBSD is up and running, it should detect it > > > > automatically > > > > > > It didn't work. Actually I have a little more than a USB mouse, I have > > > a > > > wireless mouse and wireless keyboard which are both controlled by a > > > central > > > unit which plugs into an USB port in the computer. The keyboard works > > > well, > > > with the option of booting with an USB keyboard, but I cannot make the > > > mouse > > > work. Any suggestions? > > > > > > Teilhard. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > > > load the ums module by typing these command. you need to be root > > though. > > > > > > > > # kldload ums > > # moused -p /dev/ums0 -t auto > > > > then see if the mouse daemon is running using top or ps. > > > > --- > > if this does not work you may have to rebuild yoru kernel with the > > following options > > > > device ohci > > device ums > > -------------- > > > > Thanks. Upon issuing the command: > > > > # kldload ums, > > > > I get: > > > > 'kldload: can't load ums: file exists'. > > > > But if I go to /dev, ums is not present. Are you sure kldload is the > > right > > command? > > > > Teilhard. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > i am positive. > The message basically means that the ums module is already. You can > check this by issuing the command > > # kldstat > > Yes, I have found it. It is under /usr/src/sys/modules. Shouldn't it be > under /dev? The second command you ask me to perform gives an error: 'no > such device ums0'. What should I do now? > > Teilhard > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > ><From what you said earlier, i can deduce that the ums module is *already* loaded. It seems that FreeBSD cannot de tect your mouse at bootup. I don't really know what to do next. Could you tell me what you get when you issue: # cat /var/run/dmesg.boot | grep ums uname -a will tell me what version of FreeBSD you are using and # uname -a This can tell us what is detected at boot time.> I'm having problems now. ums seems to have disappeared, at least when I go to /usr/src/sys/modules, I cannot find it. However when I run: # kldload ums I get the same as before: "file exists". Konqueror cannot find ums either. It found it when I wrote to you, but not anymore. I have been fiddling with Konqueror manually in absence of a mouse and I highlighted the module path to be able to read it complete and then I hit enter to leave it as it was. Do you think I might made it hidden? The first command you ask me to perform gives nothing under these circumstances. uname -a, gives 'FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE', and gives the time and says I am using the GENERIC kernel, that's all. Teilhard.
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