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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!cs.mu.OZ.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!news.jhu.edu!darwin.sura.net!news.er.usgs.gov!stc06.ctd.ornl.gov!cs.utk.edu!cs!larson From: larson@cs.utk.edu (Chris Larson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: PS/2 mouse config on a laptop Date: 17 Apr 1996 16:03:53 GMT Organization: CS Labs, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Lines: 37 Distribution: world Message-ID: <LARSON.96Apr17120353@hydra2b.cs.utk.edu> References: <4l23jn$lvq@cmgm.stanford.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: hydra2b.cs.utk.edu In-reply-to: ritchief@cmgm.stanford.edu's message of 16 Apr 1996 23:37:43 -0700 In article <4l23jn$lvq@cmgm.stanford.edu> ritchief@cmgm.stanford.edu (Ritchie Froehlich) writes: :> :>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. Is this a kernel that you have compiled or the one that came with the distribution? PS/2 mouse support is not available until you recompile and add the PS/2 driver to the kernel. Then it should work fine. Of course, if this is a custom kernel, then I'm not sure what's wrong :> :>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 There should be a PS/2 option. But see above. You can use it if the kernel supports it. :>mouse without going into X (I'm getting really tired of rebooting). I don't know about that. good luck Chris -- Chris Larson larson@cs.utk.edu Lab Assistant-Backups Computer Science Dept. University of Tennessee- Knoxville