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From: ted@oz.plymouth.edu (Ted Wisniewski)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: PS/2 mouse not working
Date: 16 Jun 1995 16:24:20 -0400
Organization: Plymouth State College - Plymouth, NH.
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In article <3rov50$atk@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de writes:
>Markus Baeurle <s671687@rghx50.gp.fht-esslingen.de> wrote:
>>Hello Joerg!
>
>Hey, this is not yet my newsgroup! :-)
>
>>The problem is, it doesn't work! When I try to "cat < /dev/psm0" the reaction
>>is "cat: stdin: Resource temporarily unavailable". :-((( OTOH, it's reported
>>during bootup ("psm0 at 0x60-0x63 irq 12 on motherboard").
>...
>>I hope you or somebody else can help me to get it working, ...
>
>Sorry, this is up to somebody else, i've never even seen a `psm'
>mouse.
I tried the "cat < /dev/psm0" and it does give the message you report,
however, I installed XFree86 and the mouse works fine. I suspect that
the mouse device does not like being catted from, as "cat > /dev/psm0"
does not complain. I would install X and see if it works (I suspect it will).
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