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From: james@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Configuring Mouse for XFree86
Date: 16 Jul 1995 00:17:19 -0000
Organization: A FreeBSD box
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In article <3u1qd7$bpl@ornews.intel.com>,
Allyn Craig <abcraig@orglobe.intel.com> wrote:
>I have a PS/2 style mouse and am trying to get X windows running. But
>when I run startx, I get the normal startup messages, then this:
>
>Fatal server error:
>Cannot open mouse (Device not configured)

Does your kernel have support for the PS/2 mouse compiled in? For 2.0R,
you need the following lines in your kernel config file (can't remember
off-hand if this changed for 2.0.5R):-

options	ALLOW_CONFLICT_IOADDR
device		psm0	at isa? port "IO_KBD" tty irq 12 vector psmintr

James
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