From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Oct 8 07:56:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA22252 for stable-outgoing; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 07:56:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (SRI-56K-FR.mt.net [206.127.65.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA22245 for ; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 07:56:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA01724; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 08:55:32 -0600 (MDT) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA10606; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 08:55:30 -0600 (MDT) Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 08:55:30 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199710081455.IAA10606@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Mike Smith Cc: Andreas Klemm , Robert Sowders , stable@freebsd.org Subject: psm driver (was Re: FreeBSD-2.2.5-BETA, /boot.help is missing) In-Reply-To: <199710080835.SAA01641@word.smith.net.au> References: <19971008085012.51101@klemm.gtn.com> <199710080835.SAA01641@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Mike Smith writes: [ psm0 is disabled by default in the kernel config file ] > > 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. No kidding. > The ps/2 mouse probe is disabled, IIRC, because it causes problems with > some keyboard controllers. Actually, since Kazu's re-write of everything, I'll bet we could re-enable it by default, since syscons already uses the 'critical' code that used to cause lockups. I may enable it later today if I think about it again. :) Nate