misc/36154: Getting USB mouse to workA usbd and moused conflict

Simon L. Nielsen simon at nitro.dk
Tue May 27 00:40:16 UTC 2003


The following reply was made to PR misc/36154; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon at nitro.dk>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org, ryankassel at yahoo.com
Cc:  
Subject: Re: misc/36154: Getting USB mouse to workA usbd and moused conflict
Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 02:35:20 +0200

 Perhaps a patch like this ?
 
 Note:
 
 * etc/usbd.conf was changed before 5.0 and 4.8, to enable mouse in the
   console after attaching. Relevant versions in CVS: 1.11 and 1.5.2.3.
 
 * usbd_flags="" is the default and has been since v. 1.1 of
   etc/defaults/rc.conf.
 
 %%%
 Index: book.sgml
 ===================================================================
 RCS file: /home/ncvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml,v
 retrieving revision 1.538
 diff -u -d -u -r1.538 book.sgml
 --- book.sgml	13 May 2003 19:15:26 -0000	1.538
 +++ book.sgml	27 May 2003 00:22:18 -0000
 @@ -2734,17 +2734,15 @@
  
              <step>
                <para>Edit <filename>/etc/rc.conf</filename> and add the
 -                following lines:</para>
 +                following line:</para>
  
 -              <programlisting>moused_enable="YES"
 -moused_type="auto"
 -moused_port="/dev/ums0"
 -moused_flags=""
 -usbd_enable="YES"
 -usbd_flags=""</programlisting>
 +              <programlisting>usbd_enable="YES"</programlisting>
  
 -              <para>See the <link linkend="moused">previous section</link>
 -                for more detailed discussion on moused.</para>
 +              <para>To enable the mouse in the console, in &os;
 +                versions older than 4.8, add the following line to
 +                <filename>/etc/rc.conf</filename>:</para>
 +
 +              <programlisting>allscreens_flags="-m on"</programlisting>
              </step>
  
              <step>
 %%%
 
 -- 
 Simon L. Nielsen
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