From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 30 06:17:10 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9878A16A417 for ; Mon, 30 Jul 2007 06:17:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@chrismaness.com) Received: from ns1.kq6up.org (adsl-76-238-148-145.dsl.irvnca.sbcglobal.net [76.238.148.145]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6158813C457 for ; Mon, 30 Jul 2007 06:17:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@chrismaness.com) Received: from [192.168.1.66] ([192.168.1.66]) by ns1.kq6up.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l6U6H8Ok010803; Sun, 29 Jul 2007 23:17:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@chrismaness.com) Message-ID: <46AD8264.4070803@chrismaness.com> Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 23:17:08 -0700 From: Chris Maness User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070307) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ian Smith References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Garrett Cooper , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Adam J Richardson Subject: Re: USB Mouse not Working X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 06:17:10 -0000 Ian Smith wrote: > On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 15:58:39 +0100 Adam J Richardson wrote: > > > >>> I beleive in the past I have checked with > > >>> #cat /dev/ums0 > > >>> and if things are working corectly, cat display binary garbage on the > > screen when you wiggle the mouse. Try this after killing moused (moused > > makes ums0 unavailable). > > >> > > >> Perhaps the mouse is dead or dying? Mine keeps its USB cable on a > > >> little spindle, and to unreel the cable you have to tug on the cable. > > >> Not the best design since the cable is very thin and has taken damage > > >> over time. > > >> > > >> Adam J Richardson > > > > > > The mouse is working well on another system. Did you try my little > > > experiment? > > > > > > Chris Maness > > > > Trying it in a terminal under xfce4 and substituting /dev/sysmouse > > produces a torrent of spaces characters. I'm currently using a PS/2 > > mouse [ie. the "tit" mouse on an old laptop]. > > > > $ sudo cat /dev/sysmouse > > > > Perhaps the xfce4 terminal translates the garbage into spaces. > > Or just undisplayed codes, some of which might wedge your terminal. > > Apart from using xev (in X), try piping cat through hexdump: > > paqi# cat /dev/sysmouse | hd > 00000000 87 fc ff fd ff 00 00 7f 87 fd ff fe 00 00 00 7f |................| > 00000010 87 ff 00 ff 00 00 00 7f 87 ff ff ff 00 00 00 7f |................| > 00000020 87 ff 00 00 00 00 00 7f 87 ff ff 00 00 00 00 7f |................| > 00000030 87 ff ff 00 00 00 00 7f 87 ff ff ff 00 00 00 7f |................| > 00000040 87 ff ff ff 00 00 00 7f 87 ff 00 00 00 00 00 7f |................| > 00000050 87 ff 00 00 00 00 00 7f 87 01 ff 01 00 00 00 7f |................| > ^C > > Cheers, Ian > > Try doing that with /dev/ums0 after killing moused. I would imagine it would do the same. I installed PC-BSD on the same box and tried several USB mice. Still no worky. I think I have some kind of bug either in the mother board, or in FreeBSD, because I had tried installing WinXP over it and the USB mouse worked. Really weird. I think I will probably have to use a PS/2 mouse on this box. Chris Maness