NAME
ums – USB mouse driver
SYNOPSIS
device hid device uhci device ohci device usb device ums
In loader.conf(5): ums_load="YES"
DESCRIPTION
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.
The /dev/ums0 device presents the mouse as a sysmouse or mousesystems type device. See moused(8) for an explanation of these mouse types.
SYSCTL VARIABLES
The following variables are available as both sysctl(8) variables and loader(8) tunables:
- hw.usb.ums.debug
-
Debug output level, where 0 is debugging disabled and larger values increase debug message verbosity. Default is 0.
FILES
- /dev/ums0
-
blocking device node
EXAMPLES
Use the first USB mouse on the system as your console mouse:
moused -p /dev/ums0 -t auto
To be able to use the USB mouse under X, change the "Pointer" section in xorg.conf to the following:
Device /dev/ums0
Protocol Auto
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
SEE ALSO
ohci(4), sysmouse(4), uhci(4), usb(4), xorg.conf(5) (ports/x11/xorg), moused(8)
AUTHORS
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]⟩.