USB mice don't work

Moritz Lipfert mailinglist-morlipf at arcor.de
Sun Nov 6 20:54:19 GMT 2005


Daniel Molina Wegener wrote:
>    On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 05:27:51PM +0100,
>    Moritz Lipfert wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> on every start of FreeBSD 6.0-stable amd64 the kernel reports
>> "device problem (set_addr_failed)..." and my USB mice
>> don't work. I've tested a Logitech MX518 and a Microsoft
>> IntelliMouse Explorer 3.0. The LEDs of the optical sensors are
>> not working. The USB-daemon is started and I already tried to
>> configure the mice with sysinstall. Nothing helped.
>>
>> How can I solve this problem? Any ideas?
>>     
>
>   If you use moused, try de "auto" in the mouse type parameter.
>   From the moused(8) manual page:
>   --- BEGIN QUOTE --
>   For the USB mouse, the protocol must be auto.  No other protocol
>   will work with the USB mouse.
>   --- END QUOTE ---
>
>   Also, use the same moused in the X Windows System.
>
>   
>> System specs:
>> AMD Athlon64 3500+
>> 2x 512MB Corsair Memory
>> MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum (nVidia nForce3)
>> ATi Radeon X800XT-PE
>>
>> In Linux both mice work flawlessly!
>>
>> Best regards,
>> MorLipf
>> [SNIP]
>>     
>
> Regards
>   
At the moment there are no moused lines in my rc.conf. Should I add 
these configuration lines?


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