Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 06:25:20 -0800 From: "Loren M. Lang" <lorenl@alzatex.com> To: Paul Kaletta <paul@ewido.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mouse and Touchpad with moused Message-ID: <20050129142520.GC25615@alzatex.com> In-Reply-To: <pszpuv64.fsf@ewido.net> References: <41FA969C.1030504@computerking.ca> <pszpuv64.fsf@ewido.net>
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On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 09:59:31PM +0100, Paul Kaletta wrote: > Hi, > > I have a notebook that has a build in touchpad. I also have an > USB-mouse. > > I figured out that I can use both simultaneously when I have two > moused-daemons running, one for psm0 (the Touchpad) and one for usm0 > (the USB-Mouse). (I might be wrong about the exact names, but I can't > check, since I'm not under FreeBSD right now). This way I can use both > "mice" in X and on the console. > > But I wasn't able to figure out the correct rc.conf settings. > > Could anyone help me out on this one? Manually starting moused can't be > the solution. > > It also would be very cool if moused would start automatically when I > plug in the USB-Mouse. How can I do this? On my system, FreeBSD 5.3, the usb moused is started automatically by usbd, do you have usbd_enable="YES" in your rc.conf? > > Bye > > Paul > > ps: After writing this down, I just had an idea. Maybe the right way to > do this is to only set up the touchpad in rc.conf (obvious), and somehow > make the USB daemon start moused for the external mouse when it is > recognized. How can I do this? > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C
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