Hi all, I apologize ahead of time if there is an easy, documented solution to my
problem. I've had FreeBSD installed for about a week now. I've been using only
the command line for this time, familiarizing myself, reading documentation, etc.

I've ran into two roadblocks in configuration.


The first is when I attach to mount my slackware partition. This may be a mistake
on my part regarding either FreeBSD /dev system, or in specifying the proper
filesystem of my Slack install. My slackware install is the second partition of my
second hard drive (/dev/hdb2), or in grub terms (hd1,1). I think I tried it using
/dev/ad1s2 and /dev/ad1s1 for this. The filesystem I'm using is reiserfs. Here is
an example of the command I tried.

#mount /dev/ad1s2 /mnt/slack

I couldn't find a list of supported filesystem types... Is there a way to support reiserfs
under FreeBSD, perhaps as a kernel option?


The second problem I ran into is in configuring X to work with my USB mouse. Here
are the steps I have taken to try to get it to work. Most are based off google,
thread, and documentation searches.

--Read up on FreeBSD kernel, checked for device uhci, ohci, usb, ums.
All were present, and are currently present in my new kernel.

--Ran /dev/MAKEDEV ums0. I forgot if I checked for it's presence first, but it's there
now

--Made various changes to /etc/rc.conf. I based these on a USB mouse howto for
FreeBSD. If I can get the mount working from either slackware, DamnSmallLinux, or
FreeBSD, I can get the current /etc/rc.conf if needed.

--Checked /etc/usbd.conf for proper entries regarding ums under device "Mouse"

--Checked dmesg output. Dmesg let me know that both my USB keyboard AND mouse
are being detected, and that the mouse is mapped to usm0. The kernel is working.

--Checked X windows.
--When I try to start X with /dev/usm0 it crashes. The logs tell me that device
/dev/usm0 is busy. It then crashes due to no corepointer.

--When I try to start X with /dev/sysmouse it logs me in, however my mouse does
not work.

--#less -f /dev/usm0
Device is busy

If I need a lesson on FreeBSD document finding, let me know, otherwise any help,
suggestions, or direction would be appreciated. Thanks

Which protocol did you use for your mouse when you setup X?
I had the same problem with my USB mouse ( X started, but mouse didn't work ) until I used the "Auto" protocol and /dev/sysmouse.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO...UNT-FOREIGN-FS

http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.10...-i386.html#USB

I've tried different combinations with the X config, I think auto is what it was
on last. I can start X with it on /dev/sysmouse, but on /dev/usm0 it crashes.
I'm using Logitech mouse, which is on that hardware list on the link X gave,
and the kernel is able to pick it up (dmesg). Wallison, you think you could
give me an example out of your /etc/rc.conf and X config file regarding mouse?
My problem may lie in there, although I've tried many things, including howtos.

The fact that it says that /dev/usm0 is busy leads me to believe something else
may be using it, however when I did a <ps> I didn't see moused, so I have no clue.

As far as the mounting goes, guess I'm out of luck with the reiserfs, I'll try to set up a
common ext2fs partition, or use a nfs server for file transfering.

Thanks for your help

This is my /etc/rc.conf

# -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Tue Nov 9 12:34:42 2004
# Created: Tue Nov 9 12:34:42 2004
# Enable network daemons for user convenience.
# Please make all changes to this file, not to /etc/defaults/rc.conf.
# This file now contains just the overrides from /etc/defaults/rc.conf.
hostname="savage.homeunix.net"
ifconfig_dc0="DHCP"
sshd_enable="YES"
usbd_enable="YES"
linux_enable="YES"
# This file now contains just the overrides from /etc/defaults/rc.conf.
# Please make all changes to this file, not to /etc/defaults/rc.conf.

# Enable network daemons for user convenience.
# Created: Thu Nov 11 13:32:33 2004

This is my /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Section "InputDevice"

# Identifier and driver

Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "Auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

HTH

I got the same problem as scottman
in fact, I have a USB HARD DRIVE, I try it in my FreeBSD as well.
Before I startx, all USB stuff going fine. once I startx, they all failed.
I am using 5.3 release#

so the problem could be sure in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, isn't it?

any idea?

I am having a problem similar to it, I have been running FBSD for about 2 weeks, everything working just fine. The last thing I remember doing was trying to load the sound modules, they didn work, I gave up and went to sleep, next time I booted FBSD the mouse was gone.

My /etc/rc.conf xorg.conf files are exactly as the ones posted by wallison. I ran /etc/rc.d/moused start and it gave no error message, not even an echo saying it was starting moused.

I looked for sysmouse with the find command,
the only result I got was /dev/sysmouse; however, when I did an ls /dev sysmouse wasn't there, I tryied ls -a but nothing.

Any help regarding this, will be apreciated.

Have a nice day