Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 08:22:23 +0200 From: Francois Kritzinger <ffkrz@iafrica.com> To: Robin Schilham <co9@xs4all.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mouse started with missing options (rc.conf) Message-ID: <20021021082223.1bf60223.ffkrz@iafrica.com> In-Reply-To: <3DB3235B.8070409@xs4all.nl> References: <20021020192014.1f9ece78.ffkrz@iafrica.com> <20021020180202.GB586@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> <20021020221857.626b9bfc.ffkrz@iafrica.com> <3DB3235B.8070409@xs4all.nl>
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On Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:42:51 +0200
Robin Schilham <co9@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> Francois Kritzinger wrote:
>
> >On Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:02:02 +0200
> >Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >># ffkrz@iafrica.com / 2002-10-20 19:20:14 +0200:
> >>
> >>
> >>>FreeBSD noya 4.7-STABLE FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE #0: Sat Oct 19 09:34:51 SAST 2002 root@noya:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/NOYA i386
> >>>
> >>>This is what I have in /etc/rc.conf:
> >>>
> >>> moused_enable="YES"
> >>> moused_type="auto"
> >>> moused_port="/dev/ums0"
> >>> moused_flags="-z 4"
> >>>
> >>>Despite this, moused does NOT want to start with "-z 4" at boot time.
> >>>I have tried swapping the order of the above lines around.
> >>>
> >>>
> >> hmm... anything suspicious in /var/log/messages?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Not really... Only thing I can think of is a message I see at boot time
> >that says something like "moused: unable to open device /etc/ums0:
> >device not ready/device is busy" or something like that, but that was only
> >
> Could it be that usbd already "took" the mouse? What's in /etc/usbd.conf?
Thanks so much for that suggestion; in /etc/usbd.conf I found this line:
device "Mouse"
devname "ums[0-9]+"
attach "/usr/sbin/moused -p /dev/${DEVNAME} -I /var/run/moused.${DEVNAME}.pid"
Surely this is not the way things should work? What about the moused_* lines in rc.conf?
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