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From: calvin@southern.co.nz (Calvin I. Varney)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ps/2 mouse problems
Date: 1 Sep 1996 04:44:18 GMT
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"Keith A. Tomkins" <ktomkins@cisco.com> wrote:

> 	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've just managed to get a ps2 mouse working without any problems, do you 
have a line similar to -

device  psm0  at isa? port "IO_KBD" conflicts tty irq 12 vector psmintr

in your config file?

cheers