Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 13:15:17 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Glen W Mann <gmann@itw.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New Pentium - sio0 (and mouse) not found Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980302131401.19148Q-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980228005018.419B-100000@myname.my.domain>
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On Sat, 28 Feb 1998, Glen W Mann wrote: > I bought a new Pentium because my 486 died. Awwwwww. :( > > FreeBSD cannot find sio0 where (I guess) the mouse should be (dmesg > below), and thus X cannot find a mouse. I also tried the psm0 and mse0 > devices with no success. NT 4.0 uses the mouse fine (it calls it a > Logitech Serial Mouse) but getting information from NT (like WHERE IS > IT?) is impossible. COM2 shows up in the NT control panel but COM1 does > not, so FreeBSD and NT agree the port is gone. Make sure com1 is enabled in the BIOS. The mouse isn't PS/2? I had to look pretty hard to find a MB that didn't use PS/2 mouse/keyboard connectors when I bought my ASUS T2P4 a while back. I still got a PS/2 mouse connector on a faceplate with a header to plug it into. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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