cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/moused moused.c

Doug White dwhite at gumbysoft.com
Thu Nov 13 15:41:51 PST 2003


On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:

>   If the name of the mouse device starts with "/dev/ums", try to load the
>   ums module, and allow for up to five attempts to open the device, with
>   two-second pauses in between, to allow time for USB controllers and
>   devices to probe and attach.  My Gigabyte P4 Titan 848P motherboard has
>   a total of 15 ports on four hubs hanging off four controllers, and needs
>   at least half of that ten-second allowance to get ready.

This is only a problem if you don't have ums in your kernel or loaded as a
module.  On attach usbd launches moused in the default configuration.
ums ships in GENERIC and usbd is enabled by default, so this seems to be
introducing a kludge for your own broken configuration.

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