From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jul 16 18: 1:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ece.cmu.edu (ECE.CMU.EDU [128.2.236.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80B0A37B405 for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 18:01:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from allbery@ece.cmu.edu) Received: from vpn74.ece.cmu.edu (ANNEX-4.ECE.CMU.EDU [128.2.136.4]) (authenticated) by ece.cmu.edu (8.11.0/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f6H11ig01942; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 21:01:44 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 21:01:42 -0400 From: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" To: "Sung N. Cho" , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Has anyone got their USB mouse working on FreeBSD 4.x? Message-ID: <68650000.995331701@vpn74.ece.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: <3B538F90.BE7A8888@vt.edu> References: <3B538F90.BE7A8888@vt.edu> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.1.0a6 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, July 16, 2001 21:06:24 -0400, "Sung N. Cho" wrote: +----- | Has anyone got their USB mouse working on their FreeBSD system? I +--->8 I plugged the USB mouse from a Sun Blade 100 into my 4.3-RELEASE laptop to see what would happen, and it "just worked". | detects the mouse "Kensington MIAB mouse" but I'm not seeing any mouse | cursor on console nor do I get any response when I try to use it under | X. Only PS/2 mouse is working at the moment. +--->8 If you're doing this under X, you probably want to make sure you're using sysmouse; if it's set to use the PS/2 mouse directly then it will only use that and never notice the USB mouse. Using sysmouse XFree86 happily used both the onboard PS/2 trackpad and the USB mouse while the latter was plugged in. -- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][freebsd] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [JAPH][WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering KF8NH carnegie mellon university [linux: proof of the million monkeys theory] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message