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Date:      Mon, 08 Mar 2004 22:53:07 +0000
From:      Andrew Boothman <andrew@mux.org.uk>
To:        Mike Crosland <miketemp@xs4all.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 5.2.1 usb problem
Message-ID:  <404CF953.3030202@mux.org.uk>
In-Reply-To: <opr4j7r2fxmp4kdh@mail.xs4all.nl>
References:  <opr4j7r2fxmp4kdh@mail.xs4all.nl>

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Mike Crosland wrote:
> I have a problem with getting my usb mouse/keyboard combination running 
> in FreeBSD. It's a Logitech diNovo, and although both keyboard and mouse 
> both work fine under Linux I can only get the keyboard working under 
> FreeBSD. The mouse is correctly recognised when booting, but is given 
> the same usb device address as the keyboard. Using 'cat /dev/usm0' gives 
> no output, and attempts to use /dev/usm0 reports that the device is 
> busy. Is it possible to manually assign usb device addresses in order to 
> try and work round this?

If your ums0 is being probed then usbd (if it is running) will start a 
moused attached to /dev/ums0, you can then tell X (or whatever) to use 
/dev/sysmouse

Use "usbdevs -d" to check if your mouse has been probed, then check "ps 
ax|grep moused" to see if a moused has been started for you.

Andrew



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