Re: Cordless Keyboard + Mouse

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From
Daren Desjardins <desjardins@canada.com>
Date
7 Jan 2003 11:33:05
Subject
Re: Cordless Keyboard + Mouse
Message-ID
1041967974.342.1.camel@weed.daren.ca

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On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 21:10, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 12:16, Daren Desjardins wrote:
> > > > ukbd0: Logitech USB Receiver, rev 1.10/13.10, addr 2, iclass 3/1
> > > > ums0: Logitech USB Receiver, rev 1.10/13.10, addr 2, iclass 3/1
> > >
> > > Mine shows us as a ps/2 mouse. Is this a USB setup? Mine's a normal
> > > non-USB setup.
> >
> > Single wire coming out that splits into a PS/2 connector and a USB
> > connector. If I plug just the USB connector in, dmesg shows both devices
> > however the kb doesnt work. Plugging in just the ps/2 plug I get kb
> > support but dmesg doesnt show the mouse. So I plug both in and have both
> > devices listed.
> >
> > I also tried configuring xfree to use /dev/ums0 directly but it still
> > dies with no core pointer.
>
> Personally I'd run usbd and let it run moused for you and then do..
>
> vidcontrol -m on
>
> And see if the mouse works there. Check that usbd is running and that it
> started moused.
>

I do use usbd, and it starts a moused service for the mouse at startup.
However vidcontrol does not enable the console mouse. I used 'moused -i
all -p /dev/usm0' and it prints out usb mouse etc, so it appears to be
detecting it.

> The keyboard won't work unless you tell usbd to change the console
> keyboard using 'kbdcontrol -k devname' I believe (I have never used a
> USB keyboard)

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