USB Mouse not Working

[Chris Maness]

Ian Smith wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 15:58:39 +0100 Adam J Richardson <fatman.uk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  > >>> I beleive in the past I have checked with
>  > >>> #cat /dev/ums0
>  > >>> and if things are working corectly, cat display binary garbage on the 
>  > screen when you wiggle the mouse.  Try this after killing moused (moused 
>  > makes ums0 unavailable).
>  > >>
>  > >> Perhaps the mouse is dead or dying? Mine keeps its USB cable on a 
>  > >> little spindle, and to unreel the cable you have to tug on the cable. 
>  > >> Not the best design since the cable is very thin and has taken damage 
>  > >> over time.
>  > >>
>  > >> Adam J Richardson
>  > > 
>  > > The mouse is working well on another system.  Did you try my little 
>  > > experiment?
>  > > 
>  > > Chris Maness
>  > 
>  > Trying it in a terminal under xfce4 and substituting /dev/sysmouse 
>  > produces a torrent of spaces characters. I'm currently using a PS/2 
>  > mouse [ie. the "tit" mouse on an old laptop].
>  > 
>  > $ sudo cat /dev/sysmouse
>  > 
>  > Perhaps the xfce4 terminal translates the garbage into spaces.
>
> Or just undisplayed codes, some of which might wedge your terminal. 
>
> Apart from using xev (in X), try piping cat through hexdump:
>
> paqi# cat /dev/sysmouse | hd
> 00000000  87 fc ff fd ff 00 00 7f  87 fd ff fe 00 00 00 7f  |................|
> 00000010  87 ff 00 ff 00 00 00 7f  87 ff ff ff 00 00 00 7f  |................|
> 00000020  87 ff 00 00 00 00 00 7f  87 ff ff 00 00 00 00 7f  |................|
> 00000030  87 ff ff 00 00 00 00 7f  87 ff ff ff 00 00 00 7f  |................|
> 00000040  87 ff ff ff 00 00 00 7f  87 ff 00 00 00 00 00 7f  |................|
> 00000050  87 ff 00 00 00 00 00 7f  87 01 ff 01 00 00 00 7f  |................|
> ^C
>
> Cheers, Ian
>
>   
Try doing that with /dev/ums0 after killing moused.  I would imagine it 
would do the same.  I installed PC-BSD on the same box and tried several 
USB mice.  Still no worky.  I think I have some kind of bug either in 
the mother board, or in FreeBSD, because I had tried installing WinXP 
over it and the USB mouse worked.  Really weird.  I think I will 
probably have to use a PS/2 mouse on this box.

Chris Maness