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Date:      Tue, 19 May 1998 15:14:18 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Tyson N. Trebesch" <tyson@avicom.net>
Cc:        "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: your mail
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980519151325.11841T-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <01BD8251.3DD25BC0.tyson@avicom.net>

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On Mon, 18 May 1998, Tyson N. Trebesch wrote:

> Can you help me?
> I'm trying desperately to get my Microsoft PS/2 mouse running so I can
> install XFree86 on a Pentium 200 running FreeBSD 2.2.5.
> 
> This is my problem: Whenever I try to run 'moused -t ps/2 -p psm0' from the
> command line I get the standard syntactical error message and help. This is
> probably because I blew away the psm0 device node thinking there was a
> problem with it. I had been getting a boot error saying, 'psm0: device not
> configured' or similar. So, I deleted the psm0 file, and made a weak
> attempt at re-making it. I tried '# MAKEDEV psm0' to no avail.
> How do I remake the psm0 device??? Thanks beforehand!

Is your kernel even finding the psm0 mouse?  `Device not configured' means
that it found the file and tried to open it but the kernel said that it
doesn't know anything about that device.  Check `dmesg'.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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