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From: james@parody.tecc.co.uk (James Raynard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: More on PS/2 mouse lossage
Date: 5 Dec 1995 01:15:29 -0000
Organization: A FreeBSD box
Lines: 29
Message-ID: <4a06fh$286@parody.tecc.co.uk>
References: <SHIVERS.95Dec4001437@lambda.ai.mit.edu>
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In article <SHIVERS.95Dec4001437@lambda.ai.mit.edu>,
Olin Shivers <shivers@ai.mit.edu> wrote:
[Discussion of why 'cat /dev/psm0' doesn't work]
I have had no problems getting X to work with a PS/2 mouse, in spite of
getting the same error (apparently there is a reason why it doesn't work,
but I can't remember it off hand).
>To forestall the obvious suggestions,
>- my kernel config file has the proper "conflicts" keyword:
> device psm0 at isa? port "IO_KBD" conflicts tty irq 12 vector psmintr
>- I have successfuly rebuilt the kernel.
Another obvious suggestion 8-) Does the pointer section of /etc/XF86Config
look like this?
Section "Pointer"
Protocol "PS/2"
Device "/dev/psm0"
Emulate3Buttons
EndSection
(Hope that's right - this from memory as I don't have X on the PS/2 mouse
machine at the moment)
James
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