Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 23:17:08 -0700 From: Chris Maness <chris@chrismaness.com> To: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> Cc: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Adam J Richardson <fatman.uk@gmail.com> Subject: Re: USB Mouse not Working Message-ID: <46AD8264.4070803@chrismaness.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1070730155913.22401D-100000@gaia.nimnet.asn.au> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1070730155913.22401D-100000@gaia.nimnet.asn.au>
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Ian Smith wrote: > On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 15:58:39 +0100 Adam J Richardson <fatman.uk@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
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