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Date:      Sun, 29 Jul 2007 07:14:05 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Chris Maness <chris@chrismaness.com>
To:        Adam J Richardson <fatman.uk@gmail.com>
Cc:        Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>, FreeBSD List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: USB Mouse not Working
Message-ID:  <20070729070957.L94300@ns1.kq6up.org>
In-Reply-To: <46AC95D3.5060008@crackmonkey.us>
References:  <20070727190640.J15421@ns1.kq6up.org> <46AAA9FD.20706@crackmonkey.us> <46AAAC79.309@chrismaness.com> <46AABA18.7080205@u.washington.edu> <20070728095154.I11066@ns1.kq6up.org> <46AC95D3.5060008@crackmonkey.us>

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> <snip>
>> 
>> The mouse seems to get detected perfectly and this is the GENERIC kernel 
>> build that has the modules.  The mouse gets detected and listed at boot 
>> time.  However, I don't think I am getting data out of the mouse port.
>> 
>> 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).
>> 
>> Chris Maness
>> _______________________________________________
>
> 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



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