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Date:      Thu, 31 Jul 2025 18:57:43 -0400
From:      Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>
To:        Vladimir Kondratyev <wulf@freebsd.org>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: CFT: evdev-awared moused
Message-ID:  <CAPyFy2DYwMZ07-_PQx8T_P4TFVPktXbZEMWFHy23pUAH9=rRAw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <a9a41df8-a639-45f1-81a3-04ee305baa08@FreeBSD.org>

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On Wed, 30 Jul 2025 at 04:34, Vladimir Kondratyev <wulf@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> With some non-zero probability FreeBSD15 will have usbhid(4) enabled by default.
> See e.g. https://reviews.freebsd.org/D45659. That results in USB mices stop to
> work in virtual terminals as ums(4) replacement called hms(4) is not compatible
> with current moused(8) due to lack of legacy protocols support.
>
> To fix that I reworked our old good moused(8): https://github.com/wulf7/moused

I've given it a basic smoke test on my laptop and things work fine,
thanks for this. It's nice to have a working trackpad on the console
now.

> - Other aged protocols like COM, raw PS/2 and X10 are dropped with only
> exception of sysmouse. For those who still use them there is an utility called
> msconvd.

I'm interested to hear if anyone's still using mice with these interfaces.


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