On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 7:05 PM, Scott Ballantyne <s...@ssr.com> wrote:
> Walter Hurry <walterhu...@gmail.com> writes: > > > > > Firstly, sorry if this is a bit of a newbie question. I am quite new to > > FreeBSD (though fairly experienced at Linux). Almost everything in > FreeBSD > > is fine, except that no matter what I try I cannot get the (USB) mouse to > > work. > > > > I have scoured the handbook, and Googled, but to no avail. > > > > This is 9.0-RELEASE on amd64 - fully updated. > > > > I don't need the mouse in consoles, but I do want it in X. > > > > The clue here is 'fully updated'. The latest hald has a bug that keeps > the mouse from working. If you look in your X.org.0.log you may find > a section which says that /dev/ums, configured by hal, is busy, and > unloads the mouse. If you don't find that, then ignore the rest of > this email :) > > There are various "solutions" to this, one is to disable the auto > configure, and add the configuration for both keyboard and mouse to > the .conf file. Another is to restart dbus and hald. You can switch > to a console window from X and run this command: > > /usr/local/etc/rc.d/dbus restart && /usr/local/etc/rc.d/hald restart > > If that fixes it, then you can automate it by putting something like > this in /usr/local/etc/rc.d , call it haldfixbug or something like > that: > > ---------- > #!/bin/sh > # > # PROVIDE: HALD_FIX_BUG > # REQUIRE: hald dbus > # > > [ "$1" = start ] && /usr/local/etc/rc.d/dbus restart && > /usr/local/etc/rc.d/hald restart && echo "DBUS HALD BUG FIX ATTEMPTED" > [ "$1" = faststart ] && /usr/local/etc/rc.d/dbus restart && > /usr/local/etc/rc.d/hald restart && echo "DBUS HALD BUG FIX ATTEMPTED" > sleep 5 > exit 0 > ------------- > > This might not work if you use startx, but should be ok with xdm or > gdm. It works for me, maybe not for you. > > Best, > Scott > -- > s...@ssr.com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > i'll give that a try. After updating a couple of days ago the mouse is glued to the center of the screen after starting X. I noticed if i first kill moused before startx it works fine. (moused apparently restarts). But maybe this solution will end the work-around. Waitman Gobble San Jose California USA _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
