From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 29 21:34:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA26625 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 21:34:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailx.best.com (mailx.best.com [204.156.128.56]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA26614 Mon, 29 Jan 1996 21:34:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from shellx.best.com (diag@shellx.best.com [206.86.0.11]) by mailx.best.com (8.6.12/8.6.5) with ESMTP id VAA17602; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 21:35:21 -0800 Received: from othello.selgus.com (brett.vip.best.com [205.149.181.145]) by shellx.best.com (8.6.12/8.6.5) with SMTP id VAA23678; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 21:32:22 -0800 Message-ID: <310DAD40.1AC8@selgus.com> Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 21:31:44 -0800 From: Brett Bourbin Organization: Selgus Limited X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b6a (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: garya@dreamchaser.org CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ps/2 mouse? References: <9601300139.AA28105@ montana.com > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk garya@dreamchaser.org wrote: > As a newbie here, I'm probably being stupid... > > I have a Micron system with a PS/2 mouse. > At least I *think* it's a ps/2 mouse; > win95 *says* it's a ps/2 mouse, at irq 12 > > I rebuilt the kernel with the psm device, > but when the sys boots it doesn't find it: > > psm0 not found at 0x60 > > Mouse works fine under win95. > > Can anyone give me any hints? Thanks You most likely do have a PS/2 mouse-- it is the FreeBSD PS/2 mouse probe code that is broken. The probe code looks like it works on only certain motherboards, and does not use the BIOS to check for the existance of the devices. A better way would have been at boot time to do a BIOS int 0x11 and check the PS/2 mouse bit. If you know you have the hardware attached, you could do what I did, and just comment out the test code in the psmprobe() code in psm.c in the kernel. (Make it so it always returns true, mouse is there). > Gary Aitken garya@dreamchaser.org -- Brett Bourbin, President SELGUS LIMITED brett@selgus.com 555 Bryant Street, Suite 221 Palo Alto, CA 94301