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Date:      Tue, 09 Mar 2004 01:38:12 +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:  <404D2004.2000003@mux.org.uk>
In-Reply-To: <opr4kkniu4mp4kdh@mail.xs4all.nl>
References:  <opr4j7r2fxmp4kdh@mail.xs4all.nl> <404CF953.3030202@mux.org.uk> <opr4kkniu4mp4kdh@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.
> 
> That's exactly what I tried to do. Doesn't work I'm afraid :-/ No signal 
> from the mouse is getting detected as as far as I can tell.

What did you try to do?

Could you show the output of "dmesg|grep ums0" and "usbdevs -d"?

Andrew



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