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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!new-news.sprintlink.net!helena.MT.net!nate From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: PS/2 mouse config on a laptop Date: 17 Apr 1996 16:00:30 GMT Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations Lines: 47 Message-ID: <4l34iu$471@helena.MT.net> References: <4l23jn$lvq@cmgm.stanford.edu> Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.sri.mt.net In article <4l23jn$lvq@cmgm.stanford.edu>, Ritchie Froehlich <ritchief@cmgm.stanford.edu> wrote: > [ PS/2 mouse on his laptop ] >looked for a PS/2 mouse in the list of dirvers. The closest thing >I could find was mse0 (obviously the wrong device, but I though I'de >give it a try anyway), which I configured for IRQ 12, port 0x23c, >flags 0x0. On boot-up, mse0 is probed and reports "wrong signature >7f". I guess the microsoft mouse spec. differs from IBM PS/2. Gee, >who would have guessed. What you want is the psm driver, which is documented in the LINT file. # psm: PS/2 mouse port [note: conflicts with sc0/vt0, thus "conflicts" keywd] device psm0 at isa? port "IO_KBD" conflicts tty irq 12 vector psmintr I use the above line on my NEC laptop, so it should work for you. >I have a couple of questions regarding mouse configuration. How >do I configure a PS/2 mouse on IRQ 12, should I use the Logitech or >MouseMan specification in XF86Config and is there a way to test the >mouse without going into X (I'm getting really tired of rebooting). You should use the "PS/2" specification in XF86Config. And, make sure /dev/psm0 exists, here is mine from my laptop. nec: # ls -al /dev/psm0 crw------- 1 root wheel 21, 1 Apr 17 08:32 /dev/psm0 >I've noticed that reboot(8) does not always reboot my computer. When >I hit keys during reboot process, it sometimes restarts the computer. I think this might be a coincidence. It might take longer than you think to reboot your box, and when you hit keys it distracts you long enough to think that the computer is rebooting. >Most of the time, it just hangs after printing the "Rebooting" message. Do you have power management enabled on your box? Nate -- nate@sneezy.sri.com | Research Engineer, SRI Intl. - Montana Operations nate@trout.sri.MT.net | Loving life in God's country, the great state of work #: (406) 449-7662 | Montana. home #: (406) 443-7063 | A fly pole and a 4x4 Chevy truck = Heaven on Earth