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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.uoknor.edu!news.nodak.edu!netnews1.nwnet.net!news.u.washington.edu!uw-beaver!uhog.mit.edu!news.mathworks.com!zombie.ncsc.mil!tecsun1.tec.army.mil!svl.tec.army.mil!anneb From: anneb@svl.tec.army.mil (Anne Brink) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: PS/2 Mouse doesn't work. Date: 23 Jan 1996 14:30:47 GMT Organization: U.S. Army Topographic Engineering Center, Alexandria, VA Lines: 47 Message-ID: <4e2ren$rtc@tecsun1.tec.army.mil> References: <4dpi3d$cb0@apple.hnc.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: svl.tec.army.mil X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Joohyee Lee (jedi@hncnet.co.kr) wrote: : Hi. : I have been used linux for several month at office but I moved : to FreeBSD 2.1 this year. Everything goes well but the mouse doesn't work. : I configured my kernel to PS/2 mouse and got dmesg here. : Please somebody tell me what's wrong and what must I add to kernel : config and what can I remove from kernel config. I want to remove every : unused code from kernel. Please don't mention about LAN card dmesg says here. : Conclusion : Kernel doesn't detect PS/2 mouse. Somebody please help me : to detect it. Correct. The generic kernel does not support a PS/2 mouse; you need to rebuild your kernel to support it. The instructions are detailed in the FAQ, in /usr/share/doc, section 4.7. The handbook, in /usr/share/doc/handbook, details rebuilding the kernel. A suprising number of things are detailed between the FAQ and handbook. I've found them most useful. Excerpted cut and paste from the FAQ, section 4.7: ------------- 4.7. I have a PS/2 mouse (``keyboard'' mouse) (Alternatively: I have a laptop with a track-ball mouse). How do I use it? You'll have to add the following lines to your kernel configuration file and recompile: device psm0 at isa? port "IO_KBD" conflicts tty irq 12 vector psmintr # Options for psm: options PSM_NO_RESET #don't reset mouse hardware (some laptops) ------------- When you are done, you may choose to symbolically link /dev/mouse to /dev/psm0. -Anne Brink anneb@svl.tec.army.mil