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From: wleong@sfsu.edu (WEE-KING LEONG)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Help!! How to config X with ps/2 mouse?
Date: 7 Nov 1995 21:20:14 GMT
Organization: San Francisco State University
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Someone please shed some light!
I couldn't get X to run because of the ps/2 mouse problem. I currently have
FreeBSD 2.0.5 and XR3.11 version. I have read lots of threads from FreeBSD
and XFree86 web sites and my conclusion to solve the problem is as follow.
1: #cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf
2: #cp GENERIC GENERIC_PS2
3: #vi GENERIC_PS2
- I added this two lines
options "ALLOW_CONFLICT_IOADDR"
device psm0 at isa? port "IO_KBD" tty irq 12 vector psmintr
4: #config GENERIC_PS2
5: #cd ../../compile/GENERIC_PS2
6: #make depend
7: #make <--"does it matter if I type <make> or <make install> ?"
8: #mv /kernel /kernel.old
9: #mv kernel /kernel
10: #reboot
I have done the following before reboot
#echo 'set path=($path /usr/X11R6/bin' >> /etc/csh.login
#echo 'PATH=$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin' >> /etc/profile
I added this follwoing to /etc/ttys
( I have ttyv0-ttyv2 on and ttyv3 off)
ttyv4 "/usr/X11R6/bin xdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure
The last thing I could get is a windows after reboot, the mouse works fine
in the window, but the keyboard is not responding. I have to switch back
to my old kernel after that. And ever since, when I tried to do X -probeonly,
it always failed for some reason.
If you see something that I shouldn't or should be doing here, please please
please let me know cause I ran out of resources for help already.
Your response is greatly appreciated!
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