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From: "Keith A. Tomkins" <ktomkins@cisco.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: ps/2 mouse problems
Date: 28 Aug 1996 16:58:34 GMT
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I just installed 2.1.5 on my new Asus Pentium. I had to put my old
SCSI CD in the system to install it because it would not see the IDE CD rom
on the secondary IDE. It was set up as a master and and worked just fine under
DOS. 
	Everything seemed to go OK until I tried to fire up Xwindows. I have
the pointer set up as a ps2 mouse (psm0) but when I try to crank up X, it
complains that the mouse is not configured. The device exists in /dev. I then
looked at dmesg and it complained that the ps2 mouse was not probed due to a
conflict. I tried to use -c at boot time to kill everything that I don't
have, but it still came up with the same problem. Then I went into the
GENERIC config file for the kernel. This is the one that the Walnut Creek
CDROM kernel is built from. The line for the psm0 device seems to indicate
that there might be a possible conflict with IO_KBD. Can someone please
explain what this line means and how I can get around the problem?

Thanks
Keith

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