From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 1 11:19:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA21873 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 11:19:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA21866 for ; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 11:19:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by who.cdrom.com (8.8.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id LAA14963 for ; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 11:19:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA03840; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 11:15:35 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 11:15:35 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Venkat Panchapakesan cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Microsoft mouse In-Reply-To: <33414FC5.641B@cup.hp.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 1 Apr 1997, Venkat Panchapakesan wrote: > I have a x486 system with a Microsoft mouse. I have installed > FreeBSD2.0.5 and everything > seems fine, except the mouse. I cannot get the Xserver to open the mouse > device. > I have reconfigured my kernel to include the "psm0" and "mse0" devices > (took the lines > from the LINT file). I think you need to pick one. It's probably the psm0 PS/2-style connector. > When the kernel boots up, I see the message that > the kernel was able > to recognize the device "psm0" (I infact put a printf in psmprobe() in > psm.c to verify that the probe succeeded). This happens pretty frequently. You'll need to tweak the address of the driver. See the FAQ and LINT for details. Also try upgrading FreeBSD. 2.0.5 is really old. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major