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HMS(4) FreeBSD Kernel Interfaces Manual HMS(4)
NAME hms - HID mouse driver
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 <wulf@FreeBSD.org>.
This manual page was originally written by Nick Hibma <n_hibma@FreeBSD.org> for umt(4) driver and was adopted for hms by Vladimir Kondratyev <wulf@FreeBSD.org>.
FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE September 12, 2020 FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE