From owner-freebsd-current Fri Aug 16 22:47:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA19935 for current-outgoing; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 22:47:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gwydion.hns.st-louis.mo.us (dyn-pc-35.hunter.com [199.217.148.35]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA19930 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 22:47:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from kenth@localhost) by gwydion.hns.st-louis.mo.us (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA00344 for current@freebsd.org; Sat, 17 Aug 1996 00:46:48 -0500 (CDT) From: Kent Hamilton Message-Id: <199608170546.AAA00344@gwydion.hns.st-louis.mo.us> Subject: PS/2 Mice To: current@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 17 Aug 1996 00:46:48 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Can someone please explain to me what the deal is with PS/2 mice? I also haven't been able to get them to work with moused. Tonight was the first time I have tried to set up XFree86 with 'em in a loooong time and that also fails. Anything that opens the mouse causes a console message of: Device psm0: name slot allocation failed (E=17) Device npsm0: name slot allocation failed (E=17) By mucking with the source, looking at what devfs does with it, etc it appears that their needs to be two devices, psm0 and npsm0. with a major of 21 and minor of 0 and 1 respectively. I tried creating those and moused works. XFree86 still doesn't though. It gives me: Warning: unable to get status of mouse fd (Invalid argument) and then shuts down. Should I just go buy a serial mouse? Can someone offer a little info/help? I'm not a programmer but I guess I can give it a shot? -- Kent Hamilton Play: KentH@HNS.St-Louis.MO.US NIC Handle: KH91 URL: http://www.icon-stl.net/~khamilto/ Blessed Be.... Work: KHamilton@Hunter.COM