NAME    [Toc]    [Back]

     ums -- USB mouse driver

SYNOPSIS    [Toc]    [Back]

     device ums

DESCRIPTION    [Toc]    [Back]

     The ums driver provides support for mice that attach to the USB port.
     Supported are mice with any number of buttons and mice with a wheel.  usb
     and one of uhci or ohci must be configured in the kernel as well.

     The /dev/ums device presents the mouse as a sysmouse or mousesystems type
     device.  See moused for an explanation of these mouse types.

FILES    [Toc]    [Back]

     /dev/ums0	blocking device node

EXAMPLES    [Toc]    [Back]

	   device ums

     Add the ums driver to the kernel.

	   moused -p /dev/ums0 -t auto

     Use the first USB mouse on the system as your console mouse.

     Change the "Pointer" section in XF86Config to the following

	   Device /dev/ums0
	   Protocol Auto

     to be able to use the USB mouse under X. When using the XiG accelerated X
     server, change the mouse device to /dev/ums0 and the mouse type to "MouseSystems".


     If you want to be able to use the mouse in both virtual consoles as well
     as in X change it to:

	   Device /dev/sysmouse
	   Protocol Auto

     For XFree86 3.3.1 the entry should be:

	   Device /dev/sysmouse
	   Protocol MouseSystems

SEE ALSO    [Toc]    [Back]

     ohci(4), sysmouse(4), uhci(4), usb(4), XF86Config(5), moused(8)

AUTHORS    [Toc]    [Back]

     The ums driver was written by Lennart Augustsson
     <[email protected]> for NetBSD and was adopted for FreeBSD by
     MAEKAWA Masahide <[email protected]>.

     This manual page was written by Nick Hibma <[email protected]> with
     input from Kazutaka YOKOTA <[email protected]>.


FreeBSD 5.2.1			April 11, 1999			 FreeBSD 5.2.1