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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!paladin.american.edu!news.jhu.edu!aplcenmp!netnews.jhuapl.edu!uunet!in2.uu.net!fox.almaden.ibm.com!garlic.com!news.scruz.net!kithrup.com!news.Stanford.EDU!not-for-mail From: ritchief@cmgm.stanford.edu (Ritchie Froehlich) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: PS/2 mouse config on a laptop Date: 16 Apr 1996 23:37:43 -0700 Organization: Stanford University, CA 94305, USA Lines: 35 Message-ID: <4l23jn$lvq@cmgm.stanford.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: cmgm.stanford.edu Greetings to the land of the FreeBSD.... I'm having a little trouble getting FreeBSD 2.1 to recognize my mouse. I using an older 486 laptop that has a trackball mouse that is reported by msd (in DOS) to be a "PS/2 style mouse" (without any mouse drivers installed) and "Logitech PS/2 Mouse on IRQ 12" (with mouse dirvers loaded). According to the user manual, IRQ 12 is indeed reserved for the PS/2 mouse. After loading the kernel in the configuration mode (/kernel -c), I 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. 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). On a slightly related note : I've noticed that reboot(8) does not always reboot my computer. When I hit keys during reboot process, it sometimes restarts the computer. Most of the time, it just hangs after printing the "Rebooting" message. TiA, Chris