From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 14 07:17:48 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id HAA11419 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 14 Sep 1995 07:17:48 -0700 Received: from uswat.advtech.uswest.com (firewall-user@uswat.advtech.uswest.com [130.13.16.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA11411 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 1995 07:17:44 -0700 Received: from westhub ([148.156.21.6]) by uswat.advtech.uswest.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id IAA10402 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 1995 08:17:42 -0600 Received: by westhub.mnet.uswest.com (M-Net Hub.950111) Message-Id: Date: 14 Sep 1995 08:22:33 -0600 From: "Owen Newnan" Subject: Quiet Mouse To: "questions about FreeBSD" X-Mailer: Mail*Link SMTP-QM 3.0.2 GM Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Subject: Time:7:51 AM OFFICE MEMO Quiet Mouse Date:9/14/95 I rebuilt my kernel to pick up PS/2 mouse support, using the psm line out of LINT. X came up with the mouse working and one of the first things I did in one of the windows was dump/restore my root fs to my backup root. I made the kernel again to pick up message queues and some other optimizations. Kernel comes up fine, xdm comes up, but mouse is numb. I back out the root filesystem using dd and the backup partition. Same problem: X comes up but with nonfunctional mouse. Obviously, something changed. Perhaps X has populated some file in my root directory that isn't quite right. Can anyone suggest what the problem might be, or diagnostic procedures I can use to shake down the mouse? BTW, if I try cat