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From: johnh@ficus.cs.ucla.edu (John Heidemann)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.0.5-R and new laptop woes
Date: 16 Jun 95 22:03:07 GMT
Organization: University of California, Los Angeles
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nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer) writes:
>I am anxious to hear from ANYONE who has a laptop with a PS/2 style
>pointing device that's working with a 2.0.5-RELEASE kernel. I actually
>hope that this is a FreeBSD bug, or I'll be very, very upset.
I had a laptop with a PS/2 mouse running the 950412 snapshot; I'd be
surprised if it had broken since then. You have to build a new kernel
to include PS/2 mouse support, but it seemed to work fine for me.
Add these options to your config file to build a new kernel:
options ALLOW_CONFLICT_IOADDR
device psm0 at isa? port "IO_KBD" tty irq 12 vector psmintr
Given that most recent laptops (all that I've seen) have PS/2 mice or
mouse ports, it's too bad that there (apparently) isn't a
PS/2-mouse-compatible kernel available by default.
-John Heidemann
UCLA Ficus Project.