mouse detection

nORKy · Mar 30, 2010

I have an usb mouse

When I startx (Xorg 7.4, fluxbox), it does not detect my mouse. If I unplug and plug my mouse, it detects and work fine. (while X is running)

Why ?

graudeejs · Mar 30, 2010

show /etc/rc.conf
and output of

Code:

$ uname -a

SirDice · Mar 30, 2010

Are both hald and dbus running correctly? Check if moused is loaded after booting. It should be automatically loaded.

fronclynne · Mar 30, 2010

Alternatively, I run moused(8) and eschew hald & dbus, and my USB mouse works perfectly and my trackpad does as well.

nORKy · Apr 2, 2010

Code:

FreeBSD pc-Joff.rmidom.intra 8.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p2 #0: Tue Jan  5 16:02:27 UTC 2010     [email]root@i386-builder.daemonology.net[/email]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386

Code:

keymap="fr.iso.acc"
linux_enable="YES"
moused_enable="NO"
moused_nondefault_enable="NO"
sshd_enable="YES"
dbus_enable="YES"
hald_enable="YES"
polkitd_enable="YES"
mysql_enable="YES"
apache22_enable="YES"
ntpd_enable="YES"
ntpd_sync_on_start="YES"
fusefs_enable="NO"

datastream · Apr 3, 2010

I have similar problem on my thinkpad T61. xorg 7.4_4,both kernel and world at svn revision r206129.
all ports at newest reversion.
And i notice the hald patch has hard code the mouse device /dev/sysmouse,but i find hal use psm0 instead.

Code:

#ps -axw|grep mouse
5952  ??  I      0:00.02 hald-addon-mouse-sysmouse: /dev/psm0 (hald-addon-mouse-sy)

Now i stop moused and xorg works with psm0(I find i can't use /dev/sysmouse in xorg).xorg does works with psm0,but sometimes the mouse not work correctly(click button may not work).

sometimes moused will eat 100% cpu when it works with sysmouse.
moused works quite well with psm0,in console,synaptics_support doee not work.but mouse can't work in xorg.

MS bluetooth 5000 mouse works strange.
if moused works with psm0,when the bluetooth mouse move down,it acts like clicked a middle button and a enter button.
if moused works with sysmouse,the bluetooth mouse works nothing in xorg and do endless copy and paste in console.

datastream · Apr 4, 2010

well i made the mistake.moused works good with psm0.if moused used psm0 and has been started,then hald will use sysmouse instead.Now both trackpoint and touchpad works well.but my bluetooth mouse, a move down action as a middle button click.Any changed in bluetooth stack?

nORKy · Apr 6, 2010

Code:

ps -axw | grep mouse
45005  ??  IW     0:00,00 hald-addon-mouse-sysmouse: /dev/ums0 (hald-addon-mouse-sy)

I don't understand what you say. I don't use moused. (moused_enable="NO")

My mouse works fine.
My problem is when X start : hald don't see my mouse. I must unplug and plug to detect it

fronclynne · Apr 7, 2010

nORKy said:
Code:

ps -axw | grep mouse 45005 ?? IW 0:00,00 hald-addon-mouse-sysmouse: /dev/ums0 (hald-addon-mouse-sy)

I don't understand what you say. I don't use moused. (moused_enable="NO")

My mouse works fine.
My problem is when X start : hald don't see my mouse. I must unplug and plug to detect it

Sounds like hald is misbehaving. Do you have any way of getting a verbose output from hald at boot time to see if it's missing something? Editing six or seven hundred thousand lines of "human readable" xml? Getting some voodoo guru to wave a couple of chicken bones over your hald?

nORKy · Apr 7, 2010

how to get the verbose output ??

How many chicken ?

datastream · Apr 7, 2010

nORKy said:
Code:

ps -axw | grep mouse 45005 ?? IW 0:00,00 hald-addon-mouse-sysmouse: /dev/ums0 (hald-addon-mouse-sy)

I don't understand what you say. I don't use moused. (moused_enable="NO")

My mouse works fine.
My problem is when X start : hald don't see my mouse. I must unplug and plug to detect it

Maybe you can try moused_enable="YES" and moused_port= "/dev/ums0".

Code:

20090124:
  AFFECTS: users of x11-servers/xorg-server, sysutils/hal
  AUTHOR: rnoland@FreeBSD.org

  sysutils/hal has been updated and should now properly detect mice for
  in X.org.  Use of AllowEmptyInput should no longer be needed for most
  users and moused should now work fine.

so if you are using newest hald,you can enable moused.
you can try hal-device,you may find some info about mouse.
it looks like this:

Code:

62: udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/psm_0'
  freebsd.driver = 'psm'  (string)
  freebsd.unit = 0  (0x0)  (int)
  platform.id = 'psm.0'  (string)
  freebsd.device_file = '/dev/psm0'  (string)
  info.capabilities = { 'input', 'input.mouse' } (string list)
  info.category = 'input.mouse'  (string)
  input.device = '/dev/sysmouse'  (string)
  input.x11_driver = 'mouse'  (string)
  info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/psm_0'  (string)
  info.subsystem = 'platform'  (string)
  info.product = 'PS/2 Mouse'  (string)
  info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/atkbdc_0'  (string)
  info.addons = { 'hald-addon-mouse-sysmouse' } (string list)

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