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Date:      07 Jan 2003 14:32:54 -0500
From:      Daren Desjardins <desjardins@canada.com>
To:        "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
Cc:        Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>, freebsd-current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Cordless Keyboard + Mouse
Message-ID:  <1041967974.342.1.camel@weed.daren.ca>
In-Reply-To: <1041905445.76698.2.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au>
References:  <1041903972.326.4.camel@weed.daren.ca> <1041905445.76698.2.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au>

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On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 21:10, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 12:16, Daren Desjardins wrote:
> > > > ukbd0: Logitech USB Receiver, rev 1.10/13.10, addr 2, iclass 3/1
> > > > ums0: Logitech USB Receiver, rev 1.10/13.10, addr 2, iclass 3/1
> > > 
> > > Mine shows us as a ps/2 mouse.  Is this a USB setup?  Mine's a normal
> > > non-USB setup.
> > 
> > Single wire coming out that splits into a PS/2 connector and a USB
> > connector. If I plug just the USB connector in, dmesg shows both devices
> > however the kb doesnt work. Plugging in just the ps/2 plug I get kb
> > support but dmesg doesnt show the mouse. So I plug both in and have both
> > devices listed.
> > 
> > I also tried configuring xfree to use /dev/ums0 directly but it still
> > dies with no core pointer.
> 
> Personally I'd run usbd and let it run moused for you and then do..
> 
> vidcontrol -m on
> 
> And see if the mouse works there. Check that usbd is running and that it
> started moused.
> 

I do use usbd, and it starts a moused service for the mouse at startup.
However vidcontrol does not enable the console mouse. I used 'moused -i
all -p /dev/usm0' and it prints out usb mouse etc, so it appears to be
detecting it.

> The keyboard won't work unless you tell usbd to change the console
> keyboard using 'kbdcontrol -k devname' I believe (I have never used a
> USB keyboard)

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