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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!pendragon!ames!night.primate.wisc.edu!night.primate.wisc.edu!not-for-mail From: dubois@night.primate.wisc.edu (Paul DuBois) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ps/2 mouse problems Date: 28 Aug 1996 16:08:03 -0500 Organization: UW-Madison Primate Center Lines: 28 Message-ID: <502cfj$eot@night.primate.wisc.edu> References: <501trq$l6v@cronkite.cisco.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: night.primate.wisc.edu "Keith A. Tomkins" <ktomkins@cisco.com> writes: >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? I have a ps/2 mouse problem as well, but it manifests itself a different way. This is a Dell OptiPlex Pentium Pro 180. If I enable the psm0 device in the kernel, the system boots and gets to the initial login prompt, but I can't type. CTRL-ALT-DEL doesn't work. Apparently the "conflict" in the kernel config file really conflicts, but I don't know what to do to fix it. -- Paul DuBois dubois@primate.wisc.edu Home page: http://www.primate.wisc.edu/people/dubois Software: http://www.primate.wisc.edu/software