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Manual Pages — HMS

NAME

hms – HID mouse driver

CONTENTS

SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
SYSCTL VARIABLES
FILES
SEE ALSO
BUGS
AUTHORS

SYNOPSIS

To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file: device hms device hidbus device hid device evdev

Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5):

hms_load="YES"

DESCRIPTION

The hms driver provides support for HID mice that attach to the HID transport backend. See iichid(4) or usbhid(4). Supported are mice with any number of buttons, mice with a wheel and absolute mice.

The /dev/input/eventX device presents the mouse as a evdev type device.

SYSCTL VARIABLES

The following variable is available as both sysctl(8) variable and loader(8) tunable:

dev.hms.X.debug
	Debug output level, where 0 is debugging disabled and larger values increase debug message verbosity. Default is 0.

It default value is derived from loader(8) tunable:

hw.hid.hms.debug

FILES

`/dev/input/eventX`
	input event device node.

SEE ALSO

iichid(4), usbhid(4), xorg.conf(5) ( ports/x11/xorg)

BUGS

hms cannot act like sysmouse(4)

AUTHORS

The hms driver was written by Vladimir Kondratyev <Mt wulf@FreeBSD.org>.

This manual page was originally written by Nick Hibma <Mt n_hibma@FreeBSD.org> for umt(4) driver and was adopted for hms by Vladimir Kondratyev <Mt wulf@FreeBSD.org>.

September 12, 2020

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