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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@tfs.com>
Subject: Re: ps/2 mouse
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Date: Sat, 26 Nov 1994 00:57:48 GMT
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> i've got freebsd 1.1.5 running on a toshiba laptop.  the
> laptop has a ps/2 mouse (on isa irq 12, i ASSUME). bsd
> doesn't recognize the device at boot.  is there something i need to
> do?  i am new at BSD and would really appreciate the help.

You need to build a new kernel with the "psm0" driver.  We hope
to have the PSM in the GENERIC kernel in 2.1

Poul-Henning
(FreeBSD core team)