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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!news.mit.edu!shivers From: shivers@ai.mit.edu (Olin Shivers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Mouse problem Date: 02 Dec 1995 05:21:33 GMT Organization: Artificial Intelligence Lab, MIT Lines: 14 Distribution: world Message-ID: <SHIVERS.95Dec2002133@lambda.ai.mit.edu> Reply-To: shivers@ai.mit.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: lambda.ai.mit.edu I have installed FreeBSD 2.1.0 on my PC, and am now wrestling with X. My problem is that my X server refuses to start up because it can't open the mouse device. My mouse is a PS/2 mouse. I have recompiled the kernel to provide support. The kernel finds the mouse at boot time: # /sbin/dmesg | grep psm0 psm0 at 0x60-0x63 irq 12 on motherboard # The /dev/psm0 file exists. When I try to cat it, I get the following error: # cat /dev/psm0 cat: /dev/psm0: Resource temporarily unavailable # I have no idea what's going on. Can anyone clue me in? -Olin