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Date:      Thu, 17 May 2001 15:05:49 +0000
From:      "David S. Geirsson" <andmann@andmann.eu.org>
To:        Doug Young <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: PS/2 troubles
Message-ID:  <20010517150549.C1072@bong.andmann.eu.org>
In-Reply-To: <0c0201c0dedf$5d4489e0$0300a8c0@oracle>; from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au on Fri, May 18, 2001 at 12:40:48AM %2B1000
References:  <20010517093255.A1072@bong.andmann.eu.org> <0c0201c0dedf$5d4489e0$0300a8c0@oracle>

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Nope, tried that too. Still doesn't find it (althought even if it would, it
wouldn't really be the best setup for a laptop to be dependant on an
external mouse ;).


On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 12:40:48AM +1000, Doug Young wrote:
> > 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.
> 

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Davíð Steinn Geirsson
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