From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 8 16:05:54 2003 Return-Path: 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 3B6F216A4CF for ; Sat, 8 Nov 2003 16:05:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.inode.at (smtp-04.inode.at [62.99.194.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 276F243FF2 for ; Sat, 8 Nov 2003 16:05:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@reichholf.at) Received: from [80.121.58.106] (port=13298 helo=reichholf.at) by smtp.inode.at with asmtp (Exim 4.10) id 1AId5M-00050F-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 09 Nov 2003 01:05:44 +0100 Message-ID: <3FAD84E4.4070404@reichholf.at> Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2003 01:05:56 +0100 From: Brian Reichholf User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031024 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Enigmail-Version: 0.76.7.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: yet another ``USB mouse and FreeBSD 5.1'' thread X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2003 00:05:54 -0000 this is slowly starting to get annoying... i've got a logitech wheel mouse connected to my pc, installed freebsd 5.1-RELEASE and had a few problems with the usb mouse at first, but don't recall changing anything when it finally worked on the usb port. now i just disconnected everything from my pc, took it into another room, connected everything, booted, usb mouse _doesn't_ work. so far google hasn't produced any helpful information either :( settings in rc.conf --- [ .. blah ... unimportant stuff ... ] # -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Wed Oct 15 20:58:22 2003 moused_port="/dev/psm0" moused_type="auto" moused_enable="YES" [ .. blah ... unimportant stuff ... ] --- settings in /boot/loader.conf --- linux_load="YES" --- connected to the PS/2 Port it does work (and no, i _know_ that it's not due to XF86Config, as i didn't change that either) and of course the device is in the kernel. is it perhaps just a matter of `pluging, unpluging, pluging, unpluging'' until it works? help would greatly be appreciated.