The mouse is not recognized on FreeBSD 7.1

corone · #1 January 28th, 2009, 18:59

Hi,
I just installed FreeBSD 7.1 in VMware Workstation.

The mouse is not recognized on X-windows.
USB mouse, touchpad, both are not recognized on my laptop.

When I was installing,

"User Confirmation Requested
Does this system have a PS/2, Serial or Bus mouse attached to it?"
[Yes] [No]

I chose "No".
(Did I have to choose "Yes"? But I used USB mouse.)

Now, how can I configure FreeBSD to recognize the mouse??
configuration file or command...

Thanks...

**SirDice** · #2 January 28th, 2009, 20:38

VMWare 'emulates' a PS/2 mouse in a virtual machine. Even when you have a USB mouse on the host.

Add to /etc/rc.conf:

Code:

moused_enable="YES"

Xorg should pick up the sysmouse automatically..

corone · #3 January 29th, 2009, 04:49

Oh, now it works.

I really really appreciate your help.

Thank you!

stringchopper · #4 February 3rd, 2009, 14:02

I have the same problem, but I'm not using vmware, I installed FreeBSD natively. I was also confused at setup, since I don't have a serial or ps/2 mouse, so I chose No to that option.

How should I proceed with a native installation, using an HP Pavilion dv8000 laptop with touchpad and Microsoft wireless laser mouse 6000. Note: my wireless keyboard, on the same usb and receiver, seems to work fine.

Many thanks in advance,
Brian

stringchopper · #5 February 3rd, 2009, 14:39

I noticed that i had lines from dmesg output regarding the mouse, but the Xorg -config test doesn't have a working mouse.

I noticed in dmesg, this:

atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> port 0x60,0x64 irq 1 on acpi0
psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq12 on atkbdc0
psm0: model Intellimouse, device ID 3

So, I added the following to rc.conf and rebooted (another document suggested adding the moused_port)

rc.conf
----
moused_enable="YES"
moused_port="dev/pms0"

my xorg.conf.new has this:
xorg.conf.new
----
Section "ServerLayout"
Indentifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0,0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Thanks,
Brian

ChickenWing88 · #6 February 3rd, 2009, 20:02

Did you did you issue the following commands to properly configure xorg.

Configure X11 Xorg

Code:

X -configure

Check configuration

Code:

X -config /root/xorg.conf.new

Copy new org configuration to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

Code:

cp /root/xorg.conf,new /etc/X11/xorg.conf

stringchopper · #7 February 4th, 2009, 13:51

Thanks for the suggestion, ChickenWing88.

I did all that already, and still no mouse.

I gave up and installed a linux distro

Maybe I'll try again when version 8 comes out.

hydra · #8 February 4th, 2009, 16:56

stringchopper, do what I did, fetch the ports snapshot from here:
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/re...orts/ports.tgz

Unpack to /usr/ports and you can install Xorg 7.3. Yes, you will have older programs, but at least you'll have a working OS till the things are sorted out.

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