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Date:      Sat, 20 Dec 1997 21:06:36 -0800 (PST)
From:      Peter Haight <peterh@wartch.rih.org>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Message-ID:  <199712210506.VAA00290@wartch.rih.org>

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Subject: Re: I broke my mouse. 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 21 Dec 1997 13:10:31 +0900."
             <199712210411.NAA17120@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> 
From: psh1@cornell.edu
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>I am not sure which type of mouse you own, the PS/2 mouse or the
>serial mouse?

It is definitely a PS/2 mouse. I have been using it with the psm0 driver for
a few weeks now.

>The psm driver is for the PS/2 mouse, not for the serial mouse. 
>Modification to the sio driver will have no effect on the psm driver
>and the PS/2 mouse which is connected to the PS/2 mouse port.

That's what I thought. I thought they might be associated because the mouse
stopped working sometime in the middle of my changes to sio.c.

>If you do have a PS/2 mouse, it is connected to the PS/2 mouse port,
>and it works on other computers, there may be a hardware problem: a)
>the PS/2 mouse port on this motherboard may be broken, b) or the
>cabling between the motherboard and the PS/2 mouse port connector on
>you computer case is somewhat bad.

How can I confirm or deny either of these two problems?



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