On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 16:30:02 -0700, Gary Kline <kl...@thought.org> wrote: > The guy who set up my KVM/mouse deal thinks I would be better > off just having a service do my hosting; I am close to agreeing.
It it possible that you recently had mail problems? When fetchmail'ing today's bunch of messages, I got the error message that thought.org did not resolve... but seems to work again now. > Clearly, the Beklin model I have only supports USB keybd+mouse. > They sell another that does USB and PS/2, but I didn't think of > that gotcha. The problem might be related to USB handling on FreeBSD, I think. >From your reports I see that there are no keyboard problems when switching from / to the FreeBSD box, but the mouse doesn't fully work. Did you get X working in the meantime? > The kernel is set for PS/2 mice and evidently sticks them on > /dev/sysmouse. Yes - if one is present. At least X can be set to use sysmouse as pointer device, but it is not a symlink to either a USB or PS/2 mouse. Currently, I'm using a Sun USB mouse, and there is crw------- 1 root wheel 0, 10 Oct 13 01:31 /dev/sysmouse as well as crw-r--r-- 1 root operator 0, 122 Oct 13 01:31 /dev/ums0 If this does survive a KVM switch-over, all is fine. > Thru the sysinstall script, I see a mouse active > in not-X11 but in console-mode. And the /device for that tweak > is missing from the /dev table. I read that as follows: The sysinstall program initializes a mouse and provides a cursor in text mode, means: mouse DOES WORK in text mode, but not in X. This is part 1 of the solution. You can now check what happens when you switch off / to the FreeBSD box - to see if the mouse does still work in text mode. Part 2 would be to review X settings. > I *can* get some mouse pointer working in one of at least two > ways. AS plain /dev/sysinstall, the mouse pointer jumps all > over the screen untill I sh-exec /etc/rc.d/mouse with the "poll" > arg. Having a pointer in console mode tells me that at least > FreeBSD does know the mouse is there, but I am out of ideas. I think it is X (again, ah...) having problems here. > Nutshell:: whatever, nothing mouse works in X11. That was the > whole point of this exercise. Then you might be able to solve the problem when you check the configuration file for X (or its absence, but then, the presence of HAL and DBUS services). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
