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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: PS2 mouse locks up in X -help
Date: 30 Jul 1996 21:36:42 GMT
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monachus@dimensional.com (Monachus Silentium) wrote:

> device	psm0 at isa? port "IO_KBD" conflicts tty vector psmintr
> 
> and then ran MAKEDEV to create psm0.  on bootup it finds the mouse (either
> a logitech trackman marble or a compaq mouse, depending on which one
> doesn't work :)).

Are you sure they are PS/2 mice at all?  There seems to be some
confusion.  PS/2 mice are those with the small plastics pin in the
center of the Mini-DIN plug.  To increase the confusion, there are
also serial devices with Mini-DIN plugs, but they've got a metallic
(contact) pin in the center.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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