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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
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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. ;-)