From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 17 7:40:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailin1.bigpond.com (juicer13.bigpond.com [139.134.6.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B52437B423 for ; Thu, 17 May 2001 07:40:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: from oracle ([139.134.4.55]) by mailin1.bigpond.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with SMTP id GDHICZ00.ARC; Fri, 18 May 2001 00:46:11 +1000 Received: from CPE-61-9-142-177.vic.bigpond.net.au ([61.9.142.177]) by mail4.bigpond.com (Claudes-Emergent-MailRouter V2.9c 7/19409831); 18 May 2001 00:40:43 Message-ID: <0c0201c0dedf$5d4489e0$0300a8c0@oracle> From: "Doug Young" To: "David S. Geirsson" , References: <20010517093255.A1072@bong.andmann.eu.org> Subject: Re: PS/2 troubles Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 00:40:48 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2462.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hi. I'm trying to install FreeBSD on a Mitac MiNote 6120N. Everything seems > to work, but for some reason, it doesn't find the mouse. It's a > touchpad-thing, which acts like a standard PS/2 mouse (and works fine as > such under linux). "dmesg | grep 'psm0'" gives no results, and trying to use > the mouse (with XFree86 or moused) gives: "psm0: device not configured". > > > Any ideas? I would really like to run FreeBSD on my laptop. ;) > It wouldn't be the first time someone discovered a problem with unusual hardware :) In this case a quick workaround might be to use a regular serial or PS2 mouse & ignore the touchpad. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message