From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Oct 8 01:39:35 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA03455 for stable-outgoing; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 01:39:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable) Received: from word.smith.net.au (vh1.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA03449 for ; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 01:39:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word.smith.net.au (localhost.gsoft.com.au [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA01641; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 18:05:19 +0930 (CST) Message-Id: <199710080835.SAA01641@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Andreas Klemm cc: Robert Sowders , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD-2.2.5-BETA, /boot.help is missing -Reply In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 08 Oct 1997 08:50:12 +0200." <19971008085012.51101@klemm.gtn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 08 Oct 1997 18:05:17 +0930 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > On Tue, Oct 07, 1997 at 11:43:21PM -0700, Robert Sowders wrote: > > after boot run dmesg and see if psm0 is disabled. > > if it is, look in your kernel source and remove the line disable from > > the device psm0 line. then remake your kernel and reboot. > > it should be there now at /dev/psm0. > > kernel source at /usr/src/sys/i386/conf > > If that should be the case, could we then remove the disable token > entirely ? Or is disable necessary to be able to disable the driver > when autoprobing wasn't successfull ? It's much easier just to boot with '-c' and say "enable psm0"; there is no need to rebuild your kernel. The ps/2 mouse probe is disabled, IIRC, because it causes problems with some keyboard controllers. mike