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On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:11:22PM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 10:29:31 -0700, Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> wrote:
> > I just noticed that in rc.conf is:
> > 
> > 
> > 	# -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Wed Oct 13 08:03:06 2010
> > 	moused_port="/dev/ums0"
> > 	moused_type="auto"
> > 	moused_enable="NO"
> > 
> > 	and yet the console mouse is present.  Strange... .
> 
> Explaination: USB mice are handled by devd. So if the system
> detects the presence of a ums device, devd "remote-controls"
> moused to activate this mouse.
> 
> # The entry below starts moused when a mouse is plugged in. Moused
> # stops automatically (actually it bombs :) when the device disappears.
> attach 100 {
>         device-name "ums[0-9]+";
>         action "/etc/rc.d/moused start $device-name";
> };
> 
> This is from /etc/devd.conf.
> 
> 


	Thanks for the pointer.  It got me curious about  what parsed
	this file and I'm scanning devd.cc.  ...


> 
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