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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-11.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-200.sprintlink.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: PS/2 mouse and keybd conflict ... Date: 18 Jul 1996 21:08:13 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4sm93t$7p2@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4slepf$r3l@crl.crl.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E medrecjm@crl.com (John Mosser) wrote: > using FreeBSD 2.1.0 - trying to get microsoft serial mouse working for > XFree86 > > The mouse is physically on sio0. When I recompile my kernel to add device > psm0, it knocks out sc0/vt0, and my keyboard stops working. ``Doctor, it hurts when...'' :-) psm0 is for the PS/2 mouse. If your Microsoft mouse is at sio0, so you've already got everything you need. No reason to tweak the kernel. Simply use /dev/ttyd0 as the mouse device. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)