Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:21:18 -0500
From:      Carmel <carmel_ny@hotmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Cut/Paste with USB mouse inoperative
Message-ID:  <BLU0-SMTP88FB4C05FDF6A9DF086D8393A90@phx.gbl>
In-Reply-To: <20091112203704.cd1c9dad.freebsd@edvax.de>
References:  <BLU0-SMTP221B9C21C0F9429CF07DFB93AA0@phx.gbl> <20091112203704.cd1c9dad.freebsd@edvax.de>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:37:04 +0100
Polytropon Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> replied:

>> Well, the results of that test does not exactly exhilarate me.
>> 
>> # moused -f -d -p /dev/ums0
>> moused: unable to open /dev/ums0: Device busy  
>
>Seems that there's already a moused running. Use "ps ax" to
>find it PID and simply kill it. I had to do the same to
>check. Afterwards, enabling moused again is possible.

'moused' was running. I have no idea why though. I did not start it.
Anyway, I killed it, confirmed it was dead, and then ran the command:

	moused -f -d -p /dev/ums0

It failed again with a 'device busy' message.

-- 
Carmel
carmel_ny@hotmail.com

|::::=======
|::::=======
|===========
|===========
|

IBM Pollyanna Principle: Machines should work. People should think.




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?BLU0-SMTP88FB4C05FDF6A9DF086D8393A90>