Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 18:11:57 +0100 (CET) From: Nick Hibma <hibma@skylink.it> To: thyerm@camtech.net.au Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How do I get a USB mouse working in todays -CURRENT ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.20.9912021805150.494-100000@henny.jrc.it> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912010130040.422-100000@localhost>
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> The problem is that the mouse doesn't work (its not a hardware problem),
> all I get whenever I move the mouse are lots of the following messages
> on the console:
>
> Discarded 7 bytes in queue
This means that your mouse is working but moused is closing while the
buffer is not empty yet. This looks a lot like my mistake I fixed
earlier.
> Do I need to change /etc/usbd.conf in some way ?
No, you are probably looking at a stale moused.c. Please update the file
/usr/src/usr.sbin/moused/moused.c with the following diff (there is an
extra semicolon at the end of that line) and execute make&&make install
in that directory:
Index: src/usr.sbin/moused/moused.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/usr.sbin/moused/moused.c,v
retrieving revision 1.32
retrieving revision 1.33
diff -u -w -r1.32 -r1.33
--- moused.c 1999/11/29 17:21:07 1.32
+++ moused.c 1999/11/30 10:20:33 1.33
@@ -746,7 +746,7 @@
}
/* mouse event */
- if (read(rodent.mfd, &b, 1) == -1);
+ if (read(rodent.mfd, &b, 1) == -1)
return; /* file seems to be closed on us */
if (r_protocol(b, &action)) { /* handler detected action */
Nick
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