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Date:      Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:42:51 +0200
From:      Robin Schilham <co9@xs4all.nl>
To:        Francois Kritzinger <ffkrz@iafrica.com>
Cc:        Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: mouse started with missing options (rc.conf)
Message-ID:  <3DB3235B.8070409@xs4all.nl>
References:  <20021020192014.1f9ece78.ffkrz@iafrica.com>	<20021020180202.GB586@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> <20021020221857.626b9bfc.ffkrz@iafrica.com>

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Francois Kritzinger wrote:

>On Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:02:02 +0200
>Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz> wrote:
>
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>># ffkrz@iafrica.com / 2002-10-20 19:20:14 +0200:
>>    
>>
>>>FreeBSD noya 4.7-STABLE FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE #0: Sat Oct 19 09:34:51 SAST 2002 root@noya:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/NOYA  i386
>>>
>>>This is what I have in /etc/rc.conf:
>>>
>>>	moused_enable="YES"
>>>	moused_type="auto"
>>>	moused_port="/dev/ums0"
>>>	moused_flags="-z 4"
>>>
>>>Despite this, moused does NOT want to start with "-z 4" at boot time.
>>>I have tried swapping the order of the above lines around.
>>>      
>>>
>>    hmm... anything suspicious in /var/log/messages?
>>    
>>
>
>Not really... Only thing I can think of is a message I see at boot time
>that says something like "moused: unable to open device /etc/ums0:
>device not ready/device is busy" or something like that, but that was only
>
Could it be that usbd already "took" the mouse? What's in /etc/usbd.conf?

>after I put the 'moused_port' entry into rc.conf. Before that I used to
>get "moused: unable to open device /dev/psm0: device not configured".
>But even then (pre-moused_port) moused wouldn't start with -z 4.
>
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>>    roman@freepuppy ~ 1001:0 > grep moused /etc/rc.conf         
>>    moused_port="/dev/psm0"
>>    moused_type="auto"
>>    moused_enable="YES"
>>    moused_flags="-a 1.5"
>>    roman@freepuppy ~ 1002:0 > ps auxww|grep moused
>>    root       161  0.0  0.2   916  556  ??  Ss    7:02PM   0:00.68 moused -a 1.5 -p /dev/psm0 -t auto
>>
>>    try running moused by hand, perhaps you'll get some additional info:
>>
>>    % su
>>    # killall moused
>>    # moused -p /dev/ums0 -z 4 auto
>>    
>>
>
>That's what I've been doing in order to get things to work the way I want. If I run moused
>by hand everything is rosy.
>
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