From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 24 12:35:31 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 30F4416A41F for ; Sat, 24 Dec 2005 12:35:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from teilhk@crosswinds.net) Received: from cwpro1.crosswinds.net (cwpro1.crosswinds.net [69.28.227.134]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FA9443D46 for ; Sat, 24 Dec 2005 12:35:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from teilhk@crosswinds.net) Received: from [201.127.10.40] (helo=fortunato) by cwpro1.crosswinds.net with smtp (Exim 4.60 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1Eq8cS-000EoP-93 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 24 Dec 2005 07:35:29 -0500 Message-ID: <025b01c60886$80de73e0$210110ac@fortunato> From: "Teilhard Knight" To: "FreeBDS" References: <01a001c6086d$8c0d57e0$210110ac@fortunato> <43AD197A.50905@gmx.net> <01bd01c60872$faef7990$210110ac@fortunato> <022401c60879$d6309150$210110ac@fortunato> <025201c6087f$664b2f70$210110ac@fortunato> Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 06:35:18 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - cwpro1.crosswinds.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [26 6] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - crosswinds.net X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Subject: Re: USB mice 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: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 12:35:31 -0000 On 12/24/05, Teilhard Knight 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" > > 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.