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From: scotte@center.uscs.com (L. Scott Emmons)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: PS/2 mouse config on a laptop
Date: 17 Apr 1996 17:13:40 GMT
Organization: U.S. Computer Services Research Center, El Dorado Hills, CA
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References: <4l23jn$lvq@cmgm.stanford.edu>
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To: ritchief@cmgm.stanford.edu (Ritchie Froehlich)
In-reply-to: ritchief@cmgm.stanford.edu's message of 16 Apr 1996 23:37:43 -0700

In article <4l23jn$lvq@cmgm.stanford.edu> ritchief@cmgm.stanford.edu (Ritchie Froehlich) writes:

> 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"
> [...]

You have to build a custom kernel with PS/2 mouse support.

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