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From: Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw>
To: Kristofer Pettersson <thek@erika.fdata.se>
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Subject: Re: Can't get my mouse to work..
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On Mon, 31 Jul 1995, Kristofer Pettersson wrote:
> 
> I use a compaq (microsoft) mouse connected to one of those small round
> sockets :-) (looks just like the keyboard socket).

    That might be a PS/2-style mouse, which is a little problematic
because the default kernel you get with FreeBSD does not have an
appropriate drive for it.  You need to compile a new kernel for
yourself with the "psm" driver in it.  Then your mouse device is
/dev/psm0.