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Date:      Thu, 11 Dec 2025 19:47:00 +0000
From:      Martin <iio7@protonmail.com>
To:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Cannot disable moused in FreeBSD 15.0
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I keep seeing the following when I boot FreeBSD 15.0:

Starting event5 moused.
Starting event6 moused.
Starting event7 moused.
Starting event8 moused.
Starting event9 moused.
Starting event10 moused.
Starting event11 moused.
Starting event12 moused.

$ ps aux | grep mouse

root    5606   0.0  0.0    14520   2948  -  Is   19:49    0:00.00
/usr/sbin/moused -p /dev/input/event11 -t evdev -I
/var/run/moused.event11.pid

root   34257   0.0  0.0    14520   2948  - Is   19:49    0:00.07
/usr/sbin/moused -p /dev/input/event8 -t evdev -I
/var/run/moused.event8.pid

I know that moused is disabled by default in /etc/default/rc.conf and I
don't need it so I would like to prevent it from starting up. 

My system is not using ums, but hms:

hms0: <Logitech USB Receiver Mouse> on hidbus3
hms0: 16 buttons and [XYWH] coordinates ID=2

How do I prevent moused from running?



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